This is perhaps slightly orthogonal to the main discussion here on this thread, but I have a question for Zach (and the various engineers posting on this thread):
Did you guys talk to real-world users while building this and before this launch?
This whole blow-up re: your telemetry / open sourcey'ness seems like it could have been avoided. I'm curious if you actually floated these ideas with real world users and a) everyone else is cool with it but the HN crowd is super put off by it, b) everyone is super put off by it but you decided to launch anyway, or c) you didn't actually check with real-world users and hoped for the best.
Sorry if that sounds snarky - it's not my intent. I'm genuinely curious here as a product person / entrepreneur / builder, etc.
Did you guys talk to real-world users while building this and before this launch?
This whole blow-up re: your telemetry / open sourcey'ness seems like it could have been avoided. I'm curious if you actually floated these ideas with real world users and a) everyone else is cool with it but the HN crowd is super put off by it, b) everyone is super put off by it but you decided to launch anyway, or c) you didn't actually check with real-world users and hoped for the best.
Sorry if that sounds snarky - it's not my intent. I'm genuinely curious here as a product person / entrepreneur / builder, etc.