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Comment by orofino | Hacker News Reader

  Connect literally five other services for a broader view

This copy seems quite strange. Using literally in this context would traditionally precede an impressive number. "We have literally thousands of service intergrations"... or something.

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I agree when read literally (pardon the pun). However, I think the point is that this is a beta product and features are limited; thus the term 'literally' is used ironically in this case.

I've seen enough of those app claiming to be platforms to say: five, actually working, relevant services, correctly pooled together is an impressive number. Not f*cking up the timezones would be a great improvement.

Yeah, to me it seemed like some kind of weird joke. I was confused when I read it. At least we know they aren't exaggerating when they say 5!

I literally agree with you.

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