On: I left my tech job to build a meditation app

[coldtea]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

[quickthrower2 → coldtea]

This is not the same thing though.

The Dropbox trope is "we don't need this product, because the end-user could built it themselves using tech tools"

The comment you replied to is "why quit your job, build an MVP"

[coldtea → quickthrower2]

Well, first of all, his intention was to quit their job in the first place, with app or not. The app was created to support the quiting, not vice versa.

[jstx1 → coldtea]

An obvious difference is that Dropbox was very early in its niche while at this point we already have many great meditation apps.

[mylons → coldtea]

this is my favorite response to something like this

[jamil7 → mylons]

The original author of that comment is still active and reflects on it from time to time when it pops up.