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Comment by cheald | Hacker News Reader

Let's build apps like Yo. They're good practice. Doing silly things that amuse oneself is a critical component of hackerdom.

Let's just not fund them.

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Let's fund them, let's just not acquire them. That way they won't be funded in the future :)

Let's acquire them, just not for too much money. Otherwise we tell people that anything on the internets is worth billions. :)

Oh what the hell, fine, let's acquire them for billions.

are you listening, Zuckerberg?

Why not fund them? If you think you can make a profit investing in Yo, then go for it. Who cares if it's not a life changing app, that's 99.99% of the app market, and it is what it is. If people install it, and use it, then it's providing some benefit to their lives, even if it's just for entertainment purposes.

I'm not going to start telling people to stop watching Game of Thrones, because all those man hours are going to waste, and they could be changing the world.

And because, sometimes, Game of Thrones (or whatever you do with your spare time) can be the inspiration/genesis for something world changing, or at the very least a recharge period.

If watching Game of Thrones can be inspiring, than surely Yo can be as well.

I don't understand why the author chooses to single out Yo. Someone took the time to develop something, and others are using it. Congrats to them for providing something of value. The simplicity of the app is inspiring in itself. Who cares if they raised 1.2 million? This is investment money, this isn't 1.2 million sucked out of a charity, or off the tables of families in Africa, this is 1.2 million that someone wanted to invest in a business, and they believe Yo is that business that'll give them a return.

This entire article is complete nonsense. Trillions of dollars are pissed away in this world, and we're going to point fingers at a developer that did nothing but invest some of their free time to contribute a fun social app to the market?

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=Show+HN#!/story/past_month/0/Show%...

Take a look at what's coming out of the HN community. Do we criticize each other here for not solving 'real' problems?

I was agreeing with you, actually.

People can build whatever they want.

Yo is a step towards bigger ideas, better skills, more resources to make bigger ideas happen, etc.

Let the market sort out what's a good effort and what's a piss-poor one.

>> "They're good practice"

...In releasing massive security flawed apps.

Count it as a lesson learned.

If you haven't ever released a product with massively flawed security, you've probably likely never released something, or you have released something massively flawed and don't know it yet.

Yes! This!

We all know that those silly apps/games/etc aren't solving any big world problem, but neither are watching TV, browsing cat gifs, etc. What we do during our chill out time is up to us, and I'd say there are way worse things to do than coming up with silly coding projects.

Let the Yos and fart buttons of today help these developers improve their skills in a fun way during their spare time, so that tomorrow some of them might be able to move to those big problem solving projects.

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