| >I don't understand why HN seems so concerned about nailing down its "value proposition". You're getting sidetracked because of the particular phrase "value proposition" but a lot of people just use it as a stock meme to simply understand something even without any commercial product perspective. You can read through this entire thread where people are having a hard time wrapping their head around what _it_ _is_ because the blog article doesn't explain it well. The following various stock phrases use different words but are basically asking the same thing: - "This is the solution to what problem?" - "How's this different from Tailscale/Wireguard/QUIC/etc?" - "What is the raison d'être ?" - "ELI5?" - "What's the value proposition?" - "Why should I care about this?" - "What's the use case for this?" - "What's the motivation / rationale for this?" - "What does this do?" And then different commenters try different explanations and hopefully one will finally click for readers. |