Hey, I don't know David Murphy and I just learned about this article from your post. You can reach out to him if you like.
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I can imagine it being frustrating seeing a similar product pop up a couple months after your launch (I found your hackernews post), but I've never seen Increment.me before. I honestly wouldn't even build something that already exists—I did research into this and I didn't find anything.
You're accusing me of ripping off Increment.me based off of what?
Anyways, this is just a fun side project for me (I'm a single person building this thing) so I don't plan to compete with Increment.me.
Also, I don't understand how you think I stole Increment.me's tagline.
Like saimiam mentioned, the domains aren't exactly meant to be shared on the internet for the entire world to pitch in on the topic. It's more meant for the domain creator to share with people whom they would like to receive feedback from, people whom they trust.
Honestly, abuse is really the absolute last thing that I want for this platform to give a voice to. I'm still thinking of ways to best prevent this, but if it really devolves into a platform for people to spread hate, I will just shut it down.
The idea is to provide a simple, convenient way for people to give and receive anonymous feedback. I think feedback is very important for growth and to be more self-aware in general, and the barrier to give feedback to somebody is far too high relative to the benefit this feedback could mean to the receiver.
The comment by dijit I think sums up my motivation to build this pretty well.
To be honest though I don't know if this app solves the problem. The way the app is currently, feedback is initiated by the person seeking feedback, whereas in the examples above it's the feedback giver initiating (or looking for a way to provide) the feedback.
There is still value in this case where the feedback seeker initiates the feedback loop I think, but it doesn't quite solve the problem I initially set forth to solve. Maybe that use case can be addressed with further iterations.
The idea though is that these domains are generated by people seeking feedback (or looking to talk about a certain topic) with a group of people that they at least have some sort of relationship with. It isn't really meant to be an anonymous message board where you set up the topic and literally anybody drops in and says anything they like. I was hoping that with an intimate smaller group where the domain is shared with only people the creator is interested in hearing from and trusts, this would reduce the amount of spam/abuse.
Maybe something as simple as a generated password displayed upon domain creation will suffice. Will add this to the feature requests.
I thought about this a bit and I can see this being confusing and possibly dangerous though. For example if somebody shares a domain they created, and 3 days later somebody visits the domain but it's a totally different domain.
Thanks for pointing this out! I will think about some ways to solve this.