Correction:

> - before 2012 there was no smartphone

- by 2011, 35% of US adults had smartphones, iPhone released June, 2007

sorry i got the date wrong, my first text where i researched it properly got deleted accidentially.

where are the high scores?

I wanted to check it out. After login I am immediately redirected to a page asking for $80/year without me even understanding what the service does. Unrealistic expectation. Show me value first, ask for money later

This hits different when you apply it to chess.

Instead of obsessing with my rating on I just turned on Zen mode in lichees and hid all the numbers.

The game became fun again — Just "oh that was a cool tactic, let me try this weird opening, what happens if I sacrifice my knight for vibes?"

Turns out the rating was a distraction from the actual game.

Same energy as your point about "fucking around" being the point.

The elo was just making me miserable; removing it made me better anyway.

> Simplex is developed by a person who has a rather difficult view of the world. couldn't find it. what's his view of the world?

Antivax neo-Nazi.

Source on the "neo-Nazism"?

And you might want to tell us how this affects the privacy or security of SimpleX why you're at it.

Holding and openly expressing these abhorrent views probably encourages him to focus on security and privacy more than others.

But it does risk his app being associated with that and therefore discouraging everyday users. I wouldn't be surprised if it ends up as the next EncroChat.

Focusing on security and privacy is great, but I expected some downsides. I'm glad you decided to emphasize the dedication of the creator of SimpleX instead.

EncroChat was not open-source, so it was much easier to be infiltrated.

You can self-host SimpleX and it is open source, otherwise I have no idea what you mean by associated with his views. If the project is as promised, then why would you care about the views of the developer?

what was his answer?

Every cent poured into this boom is building Google’s future competitors.

Of course he’s nervous - what else would you expect him to say?

From my own entrepreneurship scars, the real curse is never knowing when “enough is enough.”

If I’d pushed a little harder, would it have finally broken through?

Figma, Airbnb, and the other freak successes only exist because they didn’t quit.

You shouldn’t be blinded by survivorship bias either. Some of the best decisions I’ve made is quit my startup or company when I see the writing on the wall that this is not salvageable by my sacrifices

People also waste entire decades because they didn't quit.

Inisisting, trying, experimentation, effort and not giving up makes a big difference.

I suspect the reason is because most of the people, at that time, have surrendered already.

I made $60K since launching a year ago, after 4 years of full time development.

I feel delusional that I still want to keep working on it.

I guess we’ll see how year 2 post-launch goes.