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Comment by skyberrys | Hacker News Reader

Your mission is not to build software, it's to share your collection of cool typewriters with the world. And your AI built website helps you do that! It shares your YT channel, and now I know a bit more about typewriters. Thank you for building your site with AI and for building your collection with passion. Do you have a typewriter room somewhere?

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I do actually have a typewriter room and I love to go in there and appreciate the craftsmanship and history. Much as the other replier commented, there are two separate things in play here. I AM glad to have a website for the collection, I'm very glad to share the collection and I do enjoy thinking of new and interesting ways to make that history more present on the site.

The other side of it is my job. My personal mission was to display my typewriters, but my professional mission IS to build software. This post was me wrestling with the latter more than the former.

I think you missed the message of the post -- sure, the typewriters are ostensibly the objective of the website, but there was a separate, interesting challenge that he enjoyed for, you know, human reasons: it's fun to learn new things and apply what you learned. In this case, it's software development, but it could easily be learning how to fix a car, how to cook a certain cuisine, how to play an instrument.

Sure, the mission is the end goal: having a fixed car, a completed meal, a sonata you can rehearse. These are all good for you, the viewer, to admire. But that's not where the enjoyment comes from for the creator. It's completely empty satisfaction.

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