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  • If I had a penny for every time I saw an AI written text about someone emphasising being a manual labourer of X years, talking about having built an App, in a post which is clearly written by AI, which use English not being their native language as an explanation for the AI usage, I’d have two pennies, which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird it happened twice.

    Honestly, there’s more mature projects that already do all that, and I wouldn’t really see a reason to switch to a possibly vibe coded project, especially if I planned to use it for anything important. Also, most alternative messengers suffer from the network effect - most people won’t switch to a new messenger if they’re already using another, even if that other has clear deficiencies.

    Also, this whole ‘I’m a woodsman that wrote a word processor’ thing feels like marketing copy. This isn’t shark tank, you don’t need a sob story. If your app is good, and you work on it consistently, people might join you in working on it and using it.














  • That might be the case. And you might in fact be perfectly well intentioned (though, as you might have found this community isn’t, on average, very into closed source software).

    On the project site, this post, your replies, I have read nothing that sounded like genuinely you. It all reads like marketing. Or, more precisely, as if you have a LLM write/rewrite your responses. This, to me, makes them feel incredibly disingenuous. You might just sound like that naturally. In that case, I’m sorry.

    If you want to win over this community, a good avenue would probably be open sourcing your application and arranging for some form of donation.

    Edit: Also, you didn’t state that it’s closed source in your first sentence?? Well, you did in the first sentence of the reply to the comment that called out there not being source code on the repo, but the cat was out of the bag at that time.







  • If you look at e.g. Germany, it’s Deutschland in German, but others might call it Allemagne, Tyskland, Germania, Niemcy, Saska, …

    I very much don’t want to police what others would like to be called, but feel like having your own local name for a country is mostly normal and fine.

    I might also not be the biggest fan of the concept of countries, but that’s neither here nor there.