[iamben]

This feels unnecessarily harsh. So what if you don't think it's a 'hard and interesting' problem?

Couldn't you have applauded the effort and offered some constructive criticism regarding your preference in look and feel?

If everyone just bums everyone out it ends up taking monumental confidence to try and achieve anything. Be better.

[s3r3nity]

There’s a balance being positive for effort vs giving everyone participation trophies. Sometimes tough but fair feedback is appropriate and needed.

Let’s not pretend that the vectors for “effort” and “impact” should be orthogonal.

[_def]

To me your feedback doesn't seem fair and not thought out well though. Notes/Calendar/Todo apps will evolve forever, there is no one size fits all and there won't ever be.

[Snoozle]

Which is exactly why they are A waste of time. I have yet to meet a developer that doesn't have an idea for a notes/calendar/organizational tool. The point is that organization is such an individual problem that it always needs a custom solution and yet each solution will only be valuable to a handful of people.

[iamben]

"Kid - you'll never be an astronaut/actor/president/cure cancer. You might as well give up now."

[s3r3nity]

Lol THOSE are actually useful / interesting / hard problems worthwhile solving - or at least working through.

We need more computational biologists solving protein folding problems or the like to cure humanity’s greatest ills. NOT a todo app with a new sticker on it.

[iamben]

Right.

But no kid starts as a computational biologist solving protein folding problems.

[FredPret]

Tough feedback is great. But no one person can say whether there is a need or not. Only the market decides.