What exactly is the point of this post? If it is truly to help the people at Rocketr better position their product, then I would think the 100+ comments in the original thread provided more than enough feedback. In fact, this article adds nothing, and I suspect you did this to help boost your 'web presence'.
I'm done with HN and this 'scene' for a while. Everyone seems to be more concerned with flailing their e-dicks around to establish their personal brand, without actually giving a genuine fuck about helping out others. Plus, this whole "I'm passionate about startups and I'm just blunt with my advice" attitude is getting really tiring.
More and more frequently I think about people actually doing meaningful stuff out there, and very rarely are they blogging, publicly critiquing others, trying to get their name out there online. I think I'm going to follow in their footsteps.
Rocketr: I think you guys received all the feedback and more that you asked for yesterday. I'm sure you guys were taken aback by the response to your article, but you seemed rather accepting of the advice. Ignore this fluff piece and don't take it personally. This guy really doesn't care about helping.
This is the equivalent of "Original title [fixed]" we see on Reddit. The attempt to generate publicity by submitting a new item instead of contributing to the original discussion. I think this highlights a problem with sites like these: They are terrible for discussion. Discussions are practically dead after a couple of hours. The deeper a discussion tree goes, the fewer people (the contributors) have a useful way to noticing new posts. I have no idea how to do it better, just thought I would share this thought.
If only there was some other means of social collaboration. Threads tend to enforce a hierarchy that is not enforced in normal social situations. If several root level comments all present the same idea, maybe it would make sense to respond to all of them with a single well structured response. The only way to do that with threads is via copy/paste. If only there was less structure. Maybe a collaborative note-taking technology is the solution?
Similarly, a post was submitted yesterday entitled "Why You Can't Admit Personal Mistakes on the Internet" (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4220074) regarding this whole fiasco, basically going against a lot of great posts on honesty and transparency. My reply to it is pretty aligned with your response to this one.
I can't help but wonder that perhaps the point of giving feedback on their own blog is not just about responding to Rocketr, but giving that same advice to all their readers too.
Leaving the equivalent of that post as a comment on the original Rocketr article would have meant that their own readers wouldn't have seen it.
I'm done with HN and this 'scene' for a while. Everyone seems to be more concerned with flailing their e-dicks around to establish their personal brand, without actually giving a genuine fuck about helping out others. Plus, this whole "I'm passionate about startups and I'm just blunt with my advice" attitude is getting really tiring.
More and more frequently I think about people actually doing meaningful stuff out there, and very rarely are they blogging, publicly critiquing others, trying to get their name out there online. I think I'm going to follow in their footsteps.
Rocketr: I think you guys received all the feedback and more that you asked for yesterday. I'm sure you guys were taken aback by the response to your article, but you seemed rather accepting of the advice. Ignore this fluff piece and don't take it personally. This guy really doesn't care about helping.
So long, HN.