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mdaniel 3 days ago

I suspect I am just predisposed to not wanting to watch a video of anything, because it usually has a very low bitrate of knowledge transferred per investment of my time, which is ironic given the actual bandwidth requirements of video. In this specific case it did turn out to actually help me by pointing to the actual PR that their bot made <https://github.com/datafruit-dev/terraform-demo/pull/26/file...> and/or <https://github.com/datafruit-dev/terraform-demo/pull/27/file...> so I can know for sure that I am not a good fit for this product

However, I would not have learned that they seem to offer GCP, too, from the website; I only learned that from the video. That is my complaint: how hard would it have been to include "AWS or GCP" on the page? Or, if nextjs doesn't support arbitrary text for some reason, then including those 3 letters in the textarea here would have gone a long way, too

I know this is a ton of words, and that I'm barking up the wrong tree by telling you about my sadness about the lack of specificity from a Launch HN. But you asked to understand, and I knew from prior experience that either YC, or the mods, or both, are super sensitive to having any Lanuch HN criticized so I knew this conversation was coming. I do hope that I presented my observations in a factual and [mostly] neutral albeit frustrated tone (err, except for the "come on" ... I do regret that I included that part)

But based on your response I'm guessing I'm just not in the target demographic of what a Launch HN should offer to folks who read them. I can only say that I'll try harder to keep my feedback to myself, despite almost all of them ending with "We would love to hear your thoughts!" So, I guess it's closer to someone saying "how are you?" in the morning