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Comment by unsupp0rted | Hacker News Reader

HN: "It's okay to make something nobody wants = damn right! Do it for the craft and the process and the learning and the joy."

Also HN: "A guy makes 45K/mo by building tiny time-saving apps, starting with ones he himself wants = what a sad world of frivolous side-hustles!"

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I see a large diversity of opinion about this guy's business. Who is this "HN" you're talking about?

And here’s the third bucket - can’t see the forest for the semantic trees.

Is there a 4th bucket of people who are so eager to pigeonhole ideologies instead of reading that it makes them functionally illiterate? Or are we done at three buckets?

I wish this absolutely ridiculous, unthinking trope of treating communities of thousands of people as one mind that’s only allowed to have one opinion would finally stop.

but reading the comments, they mostly fall in to one of these two buckets...

in consensus based communities that only show you a reality based on what comments people upvote, it is not ridiculous at all

when a different community would have completely different sentiment

it is reflective of the audience

Yeah, there is a reason HN has a certain reputation, and Twitter has a different one, and Reddit (or certain subreddits, rather) has an entirely different one. At some point, by comparing the aggregate trends, you definitely can put communities into different camps.

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