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by naetius 1105 days ago
As a side note I must confess a certain degree of uneasiness reading some of the borderline-toxic comments, which - to be fair - are nothing new.

This time around though it seems there's a certain obvious difficulty in certain commenters to contextualize what's being shown here.

I understand that "oh but that could be an app/website/whatever" or that "it's an US phone number, I ain't gonna use that" or "ahhhh, this is gonna be abused soooo bad" and so on and so forth... but folks: this clearly is meant to be something quirky and - I think - a v1.

Have we perhaps become a bit of a boring grumpy bunch around here? My 2c.

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Not quite the same thing but I have meetings when I roll out a new feature that are “No suggestions” meetings.

We still allow for enhancements / added features that in other ways, but some meetings are for learning, not the peanut gallery peppering people with ideas that occurred to them in the last 20 seconds and that believe it or not we know…

We get it out and in customers hands and it is like magic how all these ideas sometimes prove to not be 100% necessary on day 1 … sometimes never.

Absolutely. This project is super cool!! I'll likely use this to send a postcard to some friends.

Such a cool little website to start and it feels so indie!

A lot of folks forget just because they don’t understand or agree with it doesn’t mean there isn’t understanding or agreement in it.
We are the folks that said Dropbox could be done with a few bash scripts, after all.
Lol!
:). I used to think this way, and found that I never completed anything. To each their own