Whenever there is a financial crisis, someone goes back and sees who predicted these exact circumstances, which of course someone did because that's statistics for you. But it doesn't make then a genius or prescient.

It just means they are the person who happened to guess what did actually happen. And I tell ya, it aint hard to predict which of the big companies will buy some other highly successful smaller company because there ain't that many acquisitive really big tech companies.

If you want to look like a genius in the future, Tweet a few predictions about random([amazon, google, microsoft]) will buy random([jetbrains, atlassian, twitter]). No one will notice if it never happens but when it does you can stand tall as a true crystal ball gazer who "really called it".

Here's when "The Simpsons" predicted the Trump Presidency. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXcYMvzZ7jk Same thing.

Here is when some other guy predicted - right here on HN - and way back in 2008 - that Google would buy github https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=262460 Now that guy is a genius! Oh wait now he wasn't, it was someone else who made a different guess.

And when those aliens arrive.... you'd better believe there will be a long queue of people lining up to take their title as "genius" and "prescient" and "called it".

Well not planets, but my question is more general - could a star moving this quickly have a planetary system - obviously this one would not if it got shot out of a supernova.

I am empathizing with the OP about how hard this point of a project is.

Perhaps I'm being too dry.

Programming feels like productive work, and indeed it is, up until just about the point you are at. Now it is not productive work any more, in fact, once the product is finished, programming is counter productive work. Other things need to be done and you don't know how to do them and if you do, are not in the habit of doing them. IOt is easy to get up in the morning and write code, harder to do unfamiliar things.

--> self sabotage (deeply seated need to actually not succeed)

--> fear of the unknown

--> avoidance of a change in work habit - from programming to...... ? what does one do post launch

--> fear of the likely outcome which is zero feedback, zero users

Curious - how close are you to launch, what remains to be done, and what does the software actually do?

Can I suggest perhaps be really ruthless about the remaining tasks - likely many of those launch tasks just are not important, even though the completionist in you thinks they are. For example - terms and conditions document? Ditch it until users are interested. Privacy document? Same. Purchase? Drop it.

See what I mean? If people like what you have built and use it, then the world will not come to an end because you did not have those things... and user interest will motivate you to implement them.

It's incredibly hard to work on something with no user interest. Just dump what you have built out there and see what happens.

val map = mapOf("firstName" to "John", "lastName" to "Doe")

The above seems a really strange decision for a "new" language - why would you not just use the most common structure, being JSON?

The police will arrest you for wearing brass knuckles if you are caught using this device.

This seems to be capturing finger movements that would otherwise map to a keyboard. I wonder if there is an even more optimal way to capture finger movements and map them to input, if the idea of mapping to keyboard finger movements is discarded.

How did the sale happen - did someone just turn up and offer you money, or did you go find a buyer?

Was there negotiation from a higher price down to $10M?

Did they buy the entire company from you or just buy the software assets?

How long did the sale take from when the buyer turned up till money in your account?

How much money did you end up with after paying tax on the sale?

What did you do to celebrate?

What did you do next - another business, get a job, sit at home watching TV?

Would you have handled the sale process differently if you could do it again?

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How did the sale happen - did someone just turn up and offer you money, or did you go find a buyer?

Was there negotiation from a higher price down to $10M?

Did they buy the entire company from you or just buy the software assets?

How long did the sale take from when the buyer turned up till money in your account?

How much money did you end up with after paying tax on the sale?

What did you do to celebrate?

What did you do next - another business, get a job, sit at home watching TV?

Would you have handled the sale process differently if you could do it again?

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How much of the company did you own when you sold it?

How did the sale happen - did someone just turn up and offer you money, or did you go find a buyer?

Was there negotiation from a higher price down to $10M?

Did they buy the entire company from you or just buy the software assets?

How long did the sale take from when the buyer turned up till money in your account?

How much money did you end up with after paying tax on the sale?

What did you do to celebrate?

What did you do next - another business, get a job, sit at home watching TV?

Would you have handled the sale process differently if you could do it again?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17078013

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Reliance on other countries now looks risky. If you manufacture in China, you're crazy if you don't have a backup plan for your operations being shut down as an outcome of government action on one side or the other.

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