It could help people. It's possible the sigabrt didn't even care to Google about Healthchecks.io before I decided to vibe code his own.

Also, what do you really think the odds are that sigabrt.dev will still exist in 2 years from now? Or 5?

The first thing I always want to know is, what does OP's project offer over pre-existing mature ones? Especially important when I'm seeing an increasing amount of projects that don't seem to even bother considering pre-existing projects.

I never read such comments in that way, the way I read them is actually like feedback to OP around benchmarking against competition.

Personally I love knowing about my competition, and it helps me with how I can differentiate and win over certain niches.

I don't know about OP, but I'm never offended by that, always grateful, helps me craft my message and delivery to the right audience and map out strategy.

I try not to over read into the open internet motivation behind end users, they may become customers, so I rather welcome them and seek to understand rather than judge.

Recommending similar projects helps everyone, including the creator of the project. Knowing your competition enough to recommend them forces you to be clear about what truly differentiates you.

> When you show up as a marketer and say, “I need to sell you this because my commission is on the line. I need to sell you this because I’ve decided this is what I do for a living.” You’re not showing any empathy. You’re being a selfish, short-term narcissist, which is what most marketers are.

> You show up and say, “It sounds like you need this. My competitor sells that. Here’s their phone number.” You’re being a human.

> If you’re not willing to eagerly recommend a competitor who sells a solution you don’t sell, then we’ve gotten to the truth of who you are and what you’re seeking to do. If you are willing to do that, then there is somebody for who you have the right solution. Find that person. Don’t try to persuade the other people that they’re wrong.

- Seth Godin

They are posting a link to their freemium SaaS product that has a price, of course they're looking for money.

If I find something posted here interesting I like knowing what other similar tools/services/platforms there are out there, even if they're free, so I definitely find posts like the one this thread came from to be helpful one way or another. These sorts of threads also often lead to discussion of the differences between the options, which is again very useful, especially in cases like the current one where the competing offering linked is not just a freemium SaaS platform but also as F/OSS as it can possibly be if you want to self-host and not have to pay anyone other than whoever manages your server.

If you're building a product for a market that already has solutions, your product needs to be able to hold its own against the other offerings.