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> For a community of entrepreneurs who understand iteration to find product-market fit, the comments here are very shortsighted.

I don't get the response either. But I've def seen HN folks react without any sort of logic to things so maybe this is one of those times...?

> No competitor could ask for a better time to launch with Twitter and Reddit users disaffected.

I immediately noticed it's branded with Instagram and not Facebook which I think is smart. Insta is seen as "for old people" by the gen Z crowd (that's a direct quote from a friend's kid) but not nearly as old as the FB crowd. I suspect that the disaffected Reddit crowd and the Twitter users more likely fit this demographic.

With that said, my god I would be so happy if something overtook Twitter. As much as I'm not a fan of Meta, Twitter is on the bottom of my list.

> I feel like there’s a chicken and egg problem for Threads: it uses your existing Instagram social graph to populate your Threads account.

I had a different reaction. "Oh they started with my Insta list which isn't what I want. I'll keep them for now and slowly replace them with stuff I use Twitter for." In other words, not a big deal to me and not something that immediately stood out as being an issue.

> What problem are they solving?

Twitter.

> One of my friends would always say (after poor grades or job rejections) "I wasn't even trying." By his logic, if he didn't try, then he didn't really fail, because the true extent of his abilities remained untested. He would often play videos games rather than study, just so he could have a plausible excuse for failure. It would be an existential threat for him to do his absolute best but come up short.

I knew someone that fit this. Extremely smart and would often run circles around everyone. But when we landed a top-tier school she crumbled and used this exact excuse often - "she didn't fail because she didn't try."

Eventually she started showing mental illness in the form of delusions of grandeur and something else (not sure what). She claimed she was tested for "special" powers as a kid by the government - mind reading and ability to move objects with her mind. Eventually she came up with a story that she had cancer and needed to miss class all the time for chemo. She ended up getting expelled from the school because she refused to provide any documents from the doctors (ends up she lied and was cured "by a miracle" after she left school).

I've often wondered if her intelligence played a part in this psychotic break she demonstrated. I met a few others that were scary smart and clearly outliers at the school that showed similar behavior.