Hacker News: bkorte

New comment by bkorte in "Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team"

bkorte — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 18:25:41 +0000

There is no bait and switch and it's ridiculous to suggest there is.

They have a free product and a paid product. They've used the documentation as an awareness channel for the paid product. The paid product influences and pays for the free product. A tail as old as time.

They're not asking you to buy the paid product and they're not saying they are going to make it worse. Did you even read thread? He literally says "I totally see the value in the feature and I would like to find a way to add it."

Not prioritizing it now does not make the product worse, it just doesn't make it better in this particular way today.

How is this hard to understand?

New comment by bkorte in "Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team"

bkorte — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 16:53:38 +0000

When I saw this on HN, I instantly felt terrible for Adam & the team. Happy to see that these comments are mostly supportive, they could have easily piled on the pain.

Listen to his podcast episode if you want his raw feelings on this - https://adams-morning-walk.transistor.fm/episodes/we-had-six...

Very happy Tailwind Plus and Insiders customer here.

New comment by bkorte in "I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA"

bkorte — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 18:00:59 +0000

Hey Peter! What tech (legal and non-legal) do you use?

New comment by bkorte in "Is it OK to recline your airplane seat? Some travel experts say no"

bkorte — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 03:16:32 +0000

I've almost had my laptop crushed a few times by people reclining.

I don't hate it if they're actually sleeping, but otherwise it's just frustrating to be behind someone reclining.

New comment by bkorte in "Building the New Twitter.com"

bkorte — Thu, 18 Jul 2019 19:24:35 +0000

Is there some kind of cookie hack I can run to get the new UI? Would be nice if engineering posts included a way to change your feature flag so I can experience what is being discussed.

New comment by bkorte in "Tell HN: Take vacation"

bkorte — Fri, 18 Jul 2014 16:27:11 +0000

Deal. Heading to Portland in a few weeks!

New comment by bkorte in "Ask HN: How do you sell and promote web application consultation work?"

bkorte — Thu, 01 Aug 2013 21:21:45 +0000

Thanks. I like "business applications".

New comment by bkorte in "Ask HN: How do you sell and promote web application consultation work?"

bkorte — Thu, 01 Aug 2013 21:20:59 +0000

I've asked a few people that I would put in the same class as my clients, and a couple clients as well, if they knew what those terms meant and nobody really knew.

Ask HN: How do you sell and promote web application consultation work?

bkorte — Thu, 01 Aug 2013 18:33:06 +0000

I find that far too often, clients don't understand or respond to the terminology of "web applications". I've toyed with Web Software, Online Software, Web Apps, Apps and none of them feel right.

So, what do HN's consultants use to market web app services?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6142381

Points: 7

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New comment by bkorte in "I dropped over 40 grand when I could have spent $100"

bkorte — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 16:20:14 +0000

But really, the best line from Good Will Hunting is the "how about them apples" line. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmRe_fK7pbw

New comment by bkorte in "Automatic: Your Smart Driving Assistant"

bkorte — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 20:13:29 +0000

2 questions:

1) Why isn't this available in Canada? All of our cars have ODBII after 96 as well.

2) Is there an estimated completion timeline? 2 months? 2 years?

New comment by bkorte in "Show HN: Telescope, an open-source social news app built with Meteor"

bkorte — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 01:25:39 +0000

After doing a simple project in it recently, I completely agree. Some day it will be, but not now.

Edit: I'm a moron. My comment is about Meteor, not Telescope.

New comment by bkorte in "Stripe Would Be Perfect If..."

bkorte — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 18:30:35 +0000

Agreed.

People are sure piling on OP for mentioning taxes -- I think you are all interpreting his request as "Stripe, please add tax calculation" but he's only asking for an additional charges field so he can track his subscriptions + taxes instead of his subscriptions with taxes.

New comment by bkorte in "Adobe's Source Code Pro Font"

bkorte — Sun, 07 Oct 2012 20:14:30 +0000

I love Source Code Pro - I keep my editor font size quite large (17-18px depending on the font) and the light variant of Source Code Pro is perfect for the large size.

New comment by bkorte in "iPhone 5 web teardown: How Apple compresses video using JPEG, JSON, and canvas"

bkorte — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 04:05:24 +0000

Man, I wish there was a library to help us normal folk do similar things. The ability to do small video on mobile would rock.

New comment by bkorte in "Am I An Outlier, Or Are Apple Products No Longer Easy To Use?"

bkorte — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 07:41:11 +0000

I shouldn't have used the words data loss.

Of course it isn't, but he should have backups of his iPhone.

New comment by bkorte in "Am I An Outlier, Or Are Apple Products No Longer Easy To Use?"

bkorte — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 07:06:58 +0000

So, your device hit an edge case bug. Why aren't you talking to Apple? They'll have a fix for it, get you to bring it in or send it in.

Worst case scenario your edge case cost you some data loss.

That certainly doesn't mean their products are no longer easy to use.

New comment by bkorte in "Thoughts and Observations Regarding Yesterday’s iPhone 5 and Music Event"

bkorte — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 06:25:50 +0000

I think the vast majority of what Apple does would be considered "safe".

But to me, where you see safe I see refined. They focussed on building them better. They focussed on putting in the different radios, better/larger screen, while keeping consistent battery life. While making it smaller.

Just because there's no NFC (of arguable real-world usefulness, and I'm sure that's not what you're talking about anyways) doesn't mean its not innovative.

Apple doesn't really innovate on hardware features very often. They put capacitive touch in the mainstream with the original iPhone. They pushed HiDPI displays into mainstream with the iPhone 4. They redefined the tablet computer form-factor with the iPad.

Why change a great thing?

New comment by bkorte in "Thoughts and Observations Regarding Yesterday’s iPhone 5 and Music Event"

bkorte — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 06:11:41 +0000

Shame on Apple for building something light.

Why is it a bad thing that they've innovated to the point where they can get the level of quality they're happy with and lowering the weight?

New comment by bkorte in "HP introduces new Apple iMac"

bkorte — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 17:49:15 +0000

"Post-mouse era"? Really?