501/anti 501 are symptoms, not the disease
tl;dr You are not a factory worker, stop working like one. And if you are starting a tech company don’t model it after a factory. I’m a fan of Hacker News, but I view it from afar. It’s like a strange other world and I’m just a voyeur. I’m a tech entrepreneur, but I live outside of the US. I’m not trying to bump my valuation to get bought out by a giant. But a lot of great information is shared on Hacker News, and I like you guys, even if I don’t always understand you. :-) The 501 manifesto and the anti 501 response strike me as really amusing. I know where the 501ers are coming from. I used to be a coder in the trenches. I also understand the anti-ish response, because as soon as you write a manifesto people will come running to trash it. It’s just a risk you take when you write a manifesto. And now here I am to tell you that you are both wrong. And dammit that puts me dangerously close
Why it failed
tl;dr You are not a factory worker, stop working like one. And if you are starting a tech company don’t model it after a factory. I’m a fan of Hacker News, but I view it from afar. It’s like a strange other world and I’m just a voyeur. I’m a tech entrepreneur, but I live outside
- Kind
- startup
- Status
- Shut down
- Inventor
- Buddy_D
- Ended
- 2012
- Source
- hackernews