Could you provide an example of software you wrote that could work as a benchmark ?
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I could. Thank you for asking.
Well, you didn’t.
I’m so curious to see you coming out with something.
Honestly I’d love to have a live conversation with you cause you are the most curious personality on Nostr for me. Basically I disapprove of at least 90% of what you type out loud but I’d really love to see you succeed with your projects cause I think the goals are great.
I suppose you think all forms of product reviews that exist in the world should be illegal unless the person reviewing has created an equal or better product themselves, right? Nobody is allowed to say anything is bad unless they prove that they can do better first in your mind?
Maybe you should provide an example of some software you wrote first that we can use as a benchmark to gauge if your responses here have any merit. If you haven't written something better, how is it fair for *you* to ask someone else to provide that?
Well I don’t happen to express any opinions about software (witch I do not do myself) development here on Nostr.
I happen to have a bit of experience with design and product development so I did work with a fair amount of devs.
Next to that most of nostr:npub1l5sga6xg72phsz5422ykujprejwud075ggrr3z2hwyrfgr7eylqstegx9z comments that I see reposted are actually about product development and about the idea of polishing internally before publishing.
I’ve seen this attitude fail and underperform a few times. Including myself. I used to have this attitude. Thats why I really wish them to succeed despite my and others examples of failing.
There are so many disadvantages..
without users you don’t really know who are you building for
If you don’t do work in small increments you’ll have to redo a lot once you’ll find mistakes
If you are not getting externally stress tested you have a blindspot for bugs/vulnerabilities
If you don’t have users to feature request you might miss opportunities for adoption
And so on and so on.
P.s. would Nostr community i.e. adoption would exist at all if all devs had this attitude?
P.s.s. Maaaan, nostr:npub1l5sga6xg72phsz5422ykujprejwud075ggrr3z2hwyrfgr7eylqstegx9z I’d really like to talk to you, especially if you held up the sign “change my mind” or maybe you’d change mine
This is the sort of gaslighting common to Nostr, which has happened -- repeatedly! -- to myself and my friends.
Stop telling us to not believe our lying eyes, and demanding we somehow prove to have expert knowledge, when simply pointing out that something we have been sold as a product is terribly broken and should be fixed.
This is the "If you have never grown potatoes, why do you expect potatoes to be edible and complain when they are rotten?" argument.
Perhaps, we should be asking the opposite: "If you do not know how to grow an edible potato, but you insist on growing them and selling them at market, why do you never take the time to learn how to grow an edible one?"
It is not difficult to learn. Google it.
I’m grateful to every Nostr dev that has published a broken-ass-barely-a-prototype thing they are building, so we (users) are given the opportunity to build the social layer while the tech layer is getting bootstrapped💜