| I believe the technology behind Mighty is amazing, the people involved are amazing, the experience for it's users will be amazing. I believe the underlying reason for HN's reaction to Mighty has almost nothing to do with any of the above. To the contrary, most of us probably feel that Mighty will be a raging success. But we don't actually like that at all. When I reflect on my own thoughts, the reasons my initial reaction is pessimistic are: 1. If Mighty makes badly designed/architected apps "fast", nobody will fix the underlying issues. 2. The internet will be amazing for the folks that can afford to pay $30-$50/month and all others will have to live with a sub-par experience because of #1 3. Some other company will come along and try to subsidize Mighty for all those that couldn't afford it but they'll monetize by advertising and further personal data collection. 4. Further lack of control over core software on our personal computers. I fear that one day I'll visit a website with a message saying "This website runs best using Mighty". There were similar sentiments when RSS blogs started moving to medium. Medium is amazing! but at some point medium needed to introduce a 3 item limit. More and more of the internet which a lot of us remember as this open thing that no one owns is being siloed into privately owned. |
HN and the tech crowd at large is cynical but also naively ethical... missing how ideas can be profitable because we're really thinking in terms of bettering society. Exploitation is where the real money is at.