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Comment by aogaili | Hacker News Reader

So many envious people, including myself, but at least I admit it. Go back to your corporate cusion or VC lap, and resolve that jira please.

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It's possible to find this kind of thing distasteful without being motivated by envy.

It is, I agree, at the end of the day he built his products on top of corporate workers and exploited good opportunities and niches, and he brags about it, to market it, which I personally find distasteful, but that what it takes for solo devs.

But it's not the vibe I get from most of the comments, it seems a lot of comments are knee-jerk reaction promted by envy.

How is this guy "exploiting" people? He sells products mostly for a one-time fee - something HN often reminds us is way better than "subscription for everything". And these products obviously serve people well.

And since when is being successful and in detail explaining how you went about it "bragging"?

I didn't say exploiting people. I said exploiting niche opportunities and piggybacking on the shoulders of corporate workers, ain't nothing wrong in that. In fact, I praise his hustling and envious of it.

> piggybacking on the shoulders of corporate workers

Isn't that what we all do when use API calls? Or even open a nenw tab in Firefox?

Yes.

“You’re just jealous” has for a while now been HN’s go to any unwelcome criticism, whether the criticism is valid or not. I suppose that’s what goes for “thoughtful and substantive” comments nowadays. In that spirit l, I suggest these people are just mentally underdeveloped, to the point where the best weapon they have are childish quips.

But what if they were really jealous? What makes you think the crowd here and yourself are above that universal and highly ubiquitous human emotion? Now, did you fix that Jira?

> What makes you think the crowd here and yourself are above that universal and highly ubiquitous human emotion?

Probably the same magical fairy power that allows you to deterministically read emotions without any context.

> Now, did you fix that Jira?

I don’t know, did you finish your schoolwork kid?

And be sure to return to your field (office as they call it these days), peasant.

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