Don't reinvent everything chasing a killer app
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noster suffers from, from what happens to a lot of software projects where they feel like they have to, they have they're going to reinvent everything and in this is right it is it is sucking a lot of attention and
Episode 151: One Big Table (episode page, opens in a new tab) 00:25:40 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
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Many software projects (Dave's example is Nostr) feel they must reinvent everything, pulling attention and development resources away from things that already work. Searching for a killer feature by rebuilding podcasting could burn years of work.
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I'm a big proponent of, of the old does not equal bad, and you take something that works, and it works well. And even if it's 20 years old, you just improve it and keep on going forward, because it's stupid to try to reinvent the wheel.
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Episode 151: One Big Table (episode page, opens in a new tab) 00:32:27 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
Oh, they're searching for a killer app, they're searching for the killer feature, and they're gonna come around to it is going to be podcasting. And then this is going to it's going to be five years of development work,
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Episode 169: Wifi & Web Apps (episode page, opens in a new tab) 01:28:44 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
if the nostril people want to do it, don't try to replace RSS. Just lay it just use the existing RSS tagging that we that we have in integrate that way, because that's what it's for.
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