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by hyperhello 612 days ago
I'm going to give my honest opinion. (No, I haven't given you a login email to try it, it's not that compelling)

We've known how to put labels and little images together to make icons for decades, we're all familiar with the idea. And some windows, I doubt you've added anything new. And text boxes. Your splash image shows windows, with checkboxes in them.

Blatantly useless, so your presentation says, "This is just the familiar stuff, think of what you can do....." And what? What can I do? The browser is already the thing you're copying, in the browser. A "familiar environment"? Your "online home"?

It's a toy, a demo of your hard work, but it does nothing, and your writeup is nothing. I'm glad you had fun. That's it. Sorry.

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I ask for nothing else other than honesty. And I thank you for speaking so bluntly about your thoughts.

At this point I think you're right, it is indeed a toy and a demo of my hard work. But it's also available for others to try it, and hopefully together we can turn it into something substantial.

This is a really good and mature response. He may not see the killer use case yet, but he wants to share it more broadly in case someone does.