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Better title: Convert sharing links between music services

I understand it probably comes from the original motivation, but the name seems unfortunate since you can totally use it to convert to Spotify from e.g. iTunes if you do have Spotify but just not one of the dozen competitor subscription services

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Ehn, "I don't have Spotify" is catchy, and probably the most common scenario for many people as Spotify seems to be the general default that is shared. What I don't like about it is that it keeps Spotify's name front and centre. Like I've been making a very concerted effort in the past year to say "internet search" instead of "google it."

I like “web search”

Ya that’s easier, lol

Vivaldi comes with Start Page by default, and I've been liking Kagi a lot recently.

I’ve been a Kagi customer for about a year now I think!

Me too and I have the t-Shirt to prove it.

Whoa, they have swag?

Kagi is very much worth the cost. Doesn't work very well as a verb though.

Kag-it!

Agreed fully. Early Kagi customer, and it's a hard sell to people even though it's worth the cost

Yeah, haven't managed to convince any friends to switch, though for me it was convincing enough to have it pointed out that the subscription price basically replaces the data collection based income of a search engine.

It sounds like the Portuguese imperative for "have a shit", "take a dump": "cague". (As in, "hey you! have a shit!")

duck it

I would never have guessed it’s a tool by the title, I thought it’s a blog post.

Same here - some kind of sanctimonious lecture thing, maybe a bit about FOSS.

No, I don't have Spotify is more memorable.

And less descriptive.

The title "I am cthulhu" is even more memorable, and illustrates why memorability shouldn't be the sole criteria.

GP has a good point imo

Does everything need to be as descriptive as possible? Something should be left for imagination or curiosity.

I kinda like not having the HN homepage not be lorem ipsum but having some clue of what something is about

"everything" obviously goes a bit far, but as a principle, I couldn't imagine it any other way

For programming, sure. For blog posts, that certainly isn't applicable. It's art just as much as it's tech. If the title is outrageously bad, then it's bad art, or art that isn't in your taste. But we are out of the realm of the objectiveness here.

It’s on a subdomain. They could very easily make memorizable names for all the different things. “I don’t have Spotify”, “I don’t have Apple Music”, etc. All of those could point to the same tool.

That keeps it catchy and accurate to what the user is actually doing.

It's intriguing. And i suspect the specific audience that doesn't have spotify (and has remembered thinking this phrase/concept) will be the most curious (so, a high correlation with your target). It's exactly why I clicked on it. And it's exactly what I hoped it would be (before having any idea).

Yes, I’ll admit that before clicking the link I thought this was going to be yet another navel-gazing tech-bro humble-brag blog post.

Similarly here. My first thought was "neither do I, so what?"

Then I decided to pop into the comments here.

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