Probably a poor choice for a demo. Shouldn't be using any demo material which wo...

jcahill · on March 7, 2020

That's just your brain on HN misery mode, where all earthly concerns bow in vague allegiance to business logic that may not even exist.

It's also wrong in principle: memorable demos remain the most culturally-significant standalone things associated with tech since the 1960s.

akiselev · on March 8, 2020

Those memorable demos were called things like "The Mother of all Demos" not "Cute things [...]"

jcahill · on March 9, 2020

Superficially 'bad' demos also work like this.

Getting people talking about your stuff because they're motivated enough to have a pineapple-on-pizza type of argument over the demo is canny and bigtechs do this deliberately.

"Did anyone notice <demo>? LOL and WTF" is why we're communicating now.

imhoguy · on March 7, 2020

This reminds me discussion of recent post about Lilith OS https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21861057