[ocdtrekkie]

Probably a poor choice for a demo. Shouldn't be using any demo material which would cause you to pay more attention to the content than the tech.

[jcahill]

That's just your brain on HN misery mode, where all earthly concerns bow in vague allegiance to business logic that may not even exist.

It's also wrong in principle: memorable demos remain the most culturally-significant standalone things associated with tech since the 1960s.

[akiselev]

Those memorable demos were called things like "The Mother of all Demos" not "Cute things [...]"

[jcahill]

Superficially 'bad' demos also work like this.

Getting people talking about your stuff because they're motivated enough to have a pineapple-on-pizza type of argument over the demo is canny and bigtechs do this deliberately.

"Did anyone notice <demo>? LOL and WTF" is why we're communicating now.

[imhoguy]

This reminds me discussion of recent post about Lilith OS https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21861057