Kelly Sutton's Tumblr: Your idea is terrible

kellysutton:

Last night while hacking on LayerVault, I had put on Paul Graham’s Office Hours at TC Disrupt. After watching the six or so guys chat with him, I am ashamed to call myself a software developer. The kids on stage did not succeed in doing much, other than convincing me that no one should ever…

“The problems that your project solves shouldn’t start with “Wouldn’t it be nice if…” Instead, they should always be phrased, “X sucks because Y and Z.” You may not even have a solution. Technology may not even be the right solution. But please stop adding social layers to social layers and raising 5 million dollarbucks.

Your idea is bad and you should feel bad.”