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The society of HN has a ritual of down playing products that simplify processes for non-developers (the famous dropbox comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224) and claiming that we could build some product in a weekend (Dan Luu's essay summarizes it well https://danluu.com/sounds-easy/). These are worthy of immortalizing in cuneiform for our descendants so they may know our hubris.


I should order "No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame." as perhaps the perfection of that.




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