I posted this 23 days ago -
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46100511
I've been enjoying past discussion threads on HN, currently in 2012.
Interesting conversations about how Facebook would fail back then, lol, and about how Bitcoin would not be as valuable as it is today. Who would have known?
Great site, this.
Funny you say this.
I noticed that product that succeeded are almost always products that I wouldn't buy.
So I could be used to determine the success of products. If I like it ..forget it. If i wount buy it, the the uneashed masses will and it will be a commercial succes.
I should sell this as a service ..
That's selection bias. Most replies in the post were positive.
BrandonM's comment also wasn't that unreasonable in my opinion. Imagine telling someone many years ago that we'd use an app on our phones to get in stranger's car and pay a lot for the privilege as well. His reaction to Dropbox wasn't on point but wasn't tone deaf.
Drew from Dropbox responded to the post at the time and BrandonM responded positively, praising the product.
It was overall a mature and very fair way of saying it wasn't for him.
HN is (in)famous for being bad at predicting success or failure, cf. Dropbox.
Lots of very intelligent people here but, no offense to anyone, this is the last place I'd come to get product advice.