HackerNews: People Who Makes No Money



It's amazing how some of the most talented programmers in the world can be such complete and utter retards. I stopped going there because the comments were just ridiculous. Almost as bad as the commenters on yahoo.
 
He still had 2 other apps in the top 5 when he pulled flappy birds, so he's still making good money.

It's simply for publicity, people will try every game he ever makes in the future. He'll probably have a following. Shows how stupid the general population is for making it so successful.
 
Hacker news is where the internet's biggest faggots hang out.

They make reddit look like stormfront.
 
Here's how a hacker news programmer reacts when you try to talk about monetization or creating a product that regular people actually want to use.

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Tried Fappy Bird...couldn't get through the first opening. Shit game.
 
Another choice comment full of wisdom:

"I'm reminded of a time in elementary school when I opened a Pokémon booster pack to discover a Charizard. I thought it was the best day of my life, but all my friends wanted to trade me for it, and I began to hate my Charizard card. I even had a nightmare in which Charizard blew fire at me. Alas, fame and fortune are quite the deception."
 
i was smacking my head off the desk when reading the comments on that flappy bird thread as well.

i like hacker news though, a lot more productive than reddit. patio11 is a great poster there who talks about his SAAS businesses. and you can't question their technical chops. some of the 'show HN' threads blow my mind with their mad skillz yo
 
All communities have a certain acceptable culture. I can't stand the overall anti-consumerism / anti-capitalism mindset of most sub-reddits. Hacker news has a decent culture. WickedFire's culture is great because I call a faggot a faggot and all is right in the world.

But it's worth noting that if you take a WickedFire mentality to the real world, you're gonna have a bad time. Nothing is worse than having to work with an unpleasant cynic.
 
boatBurner said:
All communities have a certain acceptable culture. I can't stand the overall anti-consumerism / anti-capitalism mindset of most sub-reddits. Hacker news has a decent culture. WickedFire's culture is great because I call a faggot a faggot and all is right in the world.

But it's worth noting that if you take a WickedFire mentality to the real world, you're gonna have a bad time. Nothing is worse than having to work with an unpleasant cynic.
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For what it's worth, I actually really like some of the links that are shared there. Kind of juvenile of me to avoid the site all together just because I disagree with some commenters.

Sometimes I just can't take anymore of the "money is bad" mindset or people bickering over things that are not important.

Then again, if I was as smart as some of the programmers on there, maybe I would be interested in proving why Python is superior to PHP or debating about whether iOS or android is better.
 
"People can clone the app because of its simplicity," Nguyen says, "but they will never make another Flappy Bird." Indeed, for those who crave the real thing, phones with Flappy Bird installed have been listed for thousands on eBay.
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shindig said:
He still had 2 other apps in the top 5 when he pulled flappy birds, so he's still making good money.

It's simply for publicity, people will try every game he ever makes in the future. He'll probably have a following. Shows how stupid the general population is for making it so successful.
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He's still making money off flappy bird too off of people who still have it installed. Like me for example.

Fuck the haters. The flappy bird dev deserves all the success he got.

Also I can totally understand why the Flappy Bird dev wanted to shut himself out from all of the critics and haters. He should have used an offshore corporation and kept his individual identity a secret. I don't blame him for not doing that though. He didn't realize what sacks of shit people turn into once twitter/reddit/etc group think and jealousy starts firing up.
 
more gold from the HN thread

I created a fairly successful app that aimed to give users the best drink specials in my college town. I honestly can't bring myself to work on it anymore because I feel morally reprehensible and somewhat socially responsible for binge drinking when alcohol is such a dangerous substance. Who's not going to over-drink when well drinks are $0.25 a pop, nobody makes a ton of expendable income in college, and my app prominently puts that special in front of 3000 sets of eyeballs? I just don't feel like I'm adding goodness to the world - I feel like I'm subtracting it.
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mpbiz said:
Here's how a hacker news programmer reacts when you try to talk about monetization or creating a product that regular people actually want to use.

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This is so, so accurate. I was at an event over in Palo Alto about 2 years ago and a guy did a presentation on some kind of gourmet food site he was working on. He was a bright guy and he did a lot of things right - but he was totally clueless about marketing. Since he had specifically asked for feedback, I mentioned afterwards that he might want to give each page a unique title and use meaningful keywords in the URLs instead of random character strings...and he went ballistic on me, ranting about how all marketers are the same, I didn't understand his vision, how SEO is a scam and it would cheapen his site, how it's wrong to worry about monetization so soon...

It was an E-COMMERCE site, of all things. And he didn't want to worry about monetization. Big surprise, the site appears to have died sometime back in mid-2012.
 
Perhaps they don't care about money and monetization because they are the top of the employee tree in a an industry where they have highly in demand skills that mean they can walk into 6 figure salary jobs where they get tons of perks?

Sort of like champagne socialism.
 
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