Good luck on your next web site because you'll shut down this one in 2 months.

Pretty famous stuff, I'm surprised someone doesn't know this.

> You take a picture of a menu

Can't you just use Google to look up the words? Or ask the waiter? I may be too old I guess, but is there really a demand for that? Creating a JS monstrosity that spits out fake pictures of food (IF you have paid for a subscription) seems to be a niche topic.

And yes, it applies to every other post, I believe HN has way too much politics and societal content.

> international tensions based on tech policy are an interesting phenomenon

We had that forever, for example in the 90s with cryptography. It was way more scary at the time, but still not on topic for such a forum.

I do absolutely enjoy my new job with a manager that trusts me. I have a lot more responsibilities and it's a lot of pride and fun. I don't enjoy working with abusers though, you're right.

OTOH, I remember all the toxic managers (along with the HR, CEO, and other spineless people) who told me to chill out after having verbally abused people. A bit like the wife beater who says his wife is complaining all the time. I suspected you were one of those guys and your answer confirms it.

> How dare a CEO ask employees to use their own product inside a company

That's the job of each employee, CTO, and architects, together. Not the CEO. The CEO shouldn't make technical decisions like that. That's restricted to technical people who you are supposed to trust, the trust which you seem to lack.

Harassing employees with specific tools that may not be appropriate while crippling their autonomy and knowledge? I know that kind of boss. It's the kind of job that I quit because it becomes toxic very quickly.

> my daughter had a birthday. I gave Dall-e the following prompt [...] Today, here is what I get with the same prompt in o4

He gave his child a generic Pixar-style image to show his love. Good boy, everyone can do that though. I understand that he doesn't give a fuck about his employees and his daughter. What kind of moral story are we supposed to get from that?

My answer may be harsh but I've experienced that over the years: the "perfect dad" (where the family knows nothing about it) that is making his employees quit or cry in front of everyone. I don't personally know the guy, but it gives me very bad "vibes" (haha /s) and bad memories that I don't want to experience again.

Good luck on what you're doing though.

In a professional context, tell your boss that you can't and won't work without the required information. Or improvise with fake/mock data.

(I'm not judging you but) It's easy for you to say when you have the real thing. And that's why our societies have failed for a lot of people, and why we now must handle porn the same way we are handling drug problems.

For the GP: "escape the clutches of porn" when it's the only alternative to suicide due to lack of social contact? You end up with incels who would do anything to have a way to be a part of society, and most of the time it's in a bad way.

Been there done that, our society has changed in the wrong way and I don't think we're blaming the right guys. "Helping them to see the humanity and personhood of women again" is misled. The issue is that some people have no human contact with men or women at all. No male parental figure which is more important and impacting than the contact with the other sex, even in a social context. Focusing on porn and women is useless in that context (since I suspect OP is talking about, well, porn and incels and the whole bro thing).

No, I'll be honest, feel free to ignore what I wrote:

- It's a vercel.app subdomain, not a real product and domain names are cheap nowadays, why don't you have one yet?

- The front page is blank without JS, fix your code!

- As a semi-privacy-conscious guy, how can you do this without being invasive? Or is it yet another TODO list to track a specific kind of item? Don't we already have a billion web sites like that? What about post-it notes?

- "recurring expenses—personal, business": personal? why another subscription when I can do this with a post-it note, business? they should have a team for that or an Excel spreadsheet

- "Why It Will Save You money and time": your pros and cons are showing you want to help people who are not organized, but they need a real budget (https://actualbudget.org/), not yet another subscription that they will forget. Also I'm a regular guy with a regular life, and I have at most 20 "subscriptions" which can be reduced to 5 if you remove all the taxes and regular bills like electricity. Why are you better than a post-it note with 5 entries?

- the whole site screams "yet another SaaS," maybe I should use your product to keep track of all my Ghibli generators and music generators and Britney Spears generators, and all those failed SaaS that did one task badly once

- Last but not least, your HN profile shows that you already created 5 different sites like this one, who says you won't abandon this one like the others? E.g. your moodwatch thing tells me to watch "Игант" without any link and a "failed to load video" error message, don't you want to fix this before?

- Please reply to this message where you cloned a web site and called it a draw: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40655954

- Last one for real: you have already spammed this one 4 times in the previous month, it feels like desperation

Also it's broken in my LibreWolf with the error "Blocked https://spritepaint.com/ from extracting canvas data because no user input was detected."

We know that reddit was a forum whose main purpose was to be an alternative to digg, there is no need to rewrite history. They could be honest and say that they want more money instead. Anyway, redditors won't leave as we've seen in the past which means that they have guaranteed eyeballs.

I wish good luck to their comment-editing CEO and their future slop machine. It will be a funny thing to watch on such a large scale.

> more and more companies open their codebases

I think it's irrelevant. They open some of their code to attract more people and gain more momentum because they already have a lot of users. But it's never fully open-source AFAIK, and the code that they opened is not a threat to their core business.

You say that you have competitors, and you should focus on this with better features, support, or feature requests. Or try to sell it to companies with an increased price if it solves a problem, or put it in the AppStore, and clean your code to provide an iPad and iOS version if you can.

> My fear is about those few who can fork and make it available

That's what open-source is all about, it's a freedom to the user, not a fear. But if it's bad for you, don't open the code. We all buy proprietary applications all the time and there is no shame in that.

Edit: I see that you have 2 LinkedIn accounts, one for each of your application. You could group that in 1 main account with your own face and pride on this. You're working on your own, I would be proud of that and show my face.