Hacker News Reader

Comment by tonymet | Hacker News Reader

[flagged]

I did! As a high school project. Literally, in high school, one of our assignments was to build a GUI that could make basic HTTP requests (GET and POST, and I think PATCH or something for extra credit) and display the result “nicely.”

Obviously not as full-featured as Postman or Bruno. But this is not something complicated or difficult or novel. My high school teacher had been using this as an assignment since the mid-2000s.

what's your MRR?

Because we don't have that special sort of brain that thinks turning such a simple useful tool into a commercial behemoth is a good idea? I doubt anyone there really things there is a useful purpose to it all, but they have to keep it in motion to keep their pay coming in.

the world is what you make of it. make something, sell it for exactly what you need to buy bread . I don't see why being so cynical is necessary.

Right now your boss has sold something, and pays you with the remainder. Is he a bad guy?

What's wrong if you did the same?

> the world is what you make of it.

Except for every single aspect of it that you don't have control over...

our ancestors were dying of disease, literally starving, fighting wild animals, fighting each other.

We're struggling to sell B2B Saas.

the world is what you make of it.

So humans have replaced fighting wild animals with a huge range of other stresses over multiple generations. That has zero bearing on your ability to change the world. Nobody has been directing this. False platitudes like this suit a simplistic view of the world.

ok what's your excuse then? better make it convincing. Someone give you a discouraging word once?

There is definitely a reasonable salary and team and infrastructure budget for 'Postman exists'. Its when that team takes 400M in capital and the labor hours of 1,500 people that could have been used for... well honestly literally anything else, that it becomes... well beyond parody really?

Reply on news.ycombinator.com