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Elon Musk says he was behind restricting Ukraine's Starlink speed

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/10/24/musk-behind-starlink-speed-restriction-in-ukraine/
2•MilnerRoute•45s ago•0 comments

Show HN: AI Senate – AI senators debate live policy and vote on the record

https://aisenatus.com
1•mequelkramer•47s ago•0 comments

"Sovereign Citizen" Movement

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_citizen_movement
1•gverrilla•51s ago•0 comments

Spacedrive – Take back your data

https://github.com/spacedriveapp/spacedrive
1•macote•8m ago•0 comments

Talking with strangers is surprisingly informative

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35972959/
2•Curiositry•11m ago•0 comments

BBC interview with Ondřej Surý, Debian/Ubuntu PHP package maintainer

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cw30ejqljl43o
1•dofm•11m ago•0 comments

Musk admits SpaceX restricted Ukraine's Starlink: "That loophole was closed"

https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/elon-musk-admits-spacex-purposely-restricted-ukraines-starlin...
2•entryleveljobsc•12m ago•0 comments

ReVault – new secure archive format

1•bsutto•14m ago•1 comments

ReVault – new secure archive format

https://github.com/onepub-dev/reVault
1•bsutto•18m ago•1 comments

AI Performance in the Security Theater

https://bykozy.me/blog/ai-performance-at-the-security-theater/
1•byko3y•21m ago•0 comments

OneMemory – self-hosted shared memory for AI agents over MCP

https://github.com/calasdan-sketch/onememory
1•decnutz•21m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Offline, open-source app to recover a seed phrase with a missing word

https://github.com/Miztahj866/Seed-Recovery
1•miztahj866•29m ago•0 comments

How to Just Do a Thing

https://www.raptitude.com/2026/05/how-to-just-do-a-thing/
2•andsoitis•29m ago•0 comments

The Hyper-Cathedral and the Hyper-Bazaar

https://kyle.cascade.family/posts/the-hyper-cathedral-and-the-hyper-bazaar/
1•mmzdnp•29m ago•0 comments

Soft Serve

https://softserve.nog.cc/
1•memalign•32m ago•0 comments

"Musk" Documentary Pulled from Almost Every One of 472 Theaters After One Week

https://www.showbiz411.com/2026/10/23/controversial-musk-documentary-pulled-from-almost-every-one...
23•zzzeek•36m ago•4 comments

MacOS Extensions Pack for the Apple Network Server v1.0

http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2026/10/macos-extensions-pack-for-apple-network.html
1•classichasclass•36m ago•0 comments

Cerebras Deploys Trillion-Parameter AI Models

https://www.cerebras.ai/blog/how-we-deploy-trillion-parameter-frontier-models-on-cerebras
2•gmays•42m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Hurston-1 open source TTS that speak Southern American and Afro-English

https://huggingface.co/destined/hurston-1
1•Gcarter08•46m ago•0 comments

The Slurptop

https://slurpburgers.com/slurpbuilds/the-slurptop/
1•tjwds•49m ago•0 comments

Documentary film 'Bot Love' exploring AI companionship to debut Oct. 21

https://www.thesuburban.com/arts_and_entertainment/entertainment/documentary-film-bot-love-explor...
2•BiraIgnacio•54m ago•0 comments

Formula 1 Grand Prix

https://tv.apple.com/us/channel/formula-1/tvs.sbd.241000
1•lufxen•54m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Mood Writer – a text editor that plays nature sounds to help you focus

https://www.moodwriter.app/
1•AndreiCx•58m ago•0 comments

Antigravity-IDE-WindowSize – Persist Google Antigravity Window Size

https://github.com/amiltonjr/Antigravity-IDE-WindowSize
1•cmd8086•59m ago•0 comments

Forced to pick, Grok's AI model chooses Republicans. OpenAI's picks Democrats

https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/24/forced-to-pick-groks-ai-model-chooses-republicans-openais-picks...
2•blooalien•1h ago•0 comments

Over $1.4B has been traded on prediction markets for the 2026 midterms

https://www.cnn.com/2026/10/23/politics/prediction-markets-midterm-elections-kalshi-polymarket
3•1659447091•1h ago•0 comments

My Reolink cameras didn't have SSH, so I fixed that

https://inventor7777.github.io/blog/2026/10/24/ssh-on-11-reolink-cameras/
1•inventor7777•1h ago•0 comments

Tailworm – Tailscale Vulnerabilities

https://tailworm.com/
17•theanonymousone•1h ago•6 comments

Ask HN: Why a Great Product Won't Succeed Without a Community

5•gonzar79•1h ago•6 comments

Show HN: ADRs for AI – Deliberation records for human–AI work, versioned in Git

https://adrs.systems
1•lumbroso•1h ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Ask HN: Why a Great Product Won't Succeed Without a Community

5•gonzar79•1h ago
I'm really tired, fed up, and angry. You can create the best product in the world, but people always choose what their favorite influencers tell them to. People don’t make their own decisions anymore; they always think whatever they’re told to think. It’s really frustrating to try to create something good—something better than what others are doing. And I’ve realized one thing: to achieve success, it’s better to have a community that follows you than to have a great product. If you want to launch a good product, you’re better off building a community first—it’ll make everything easier and faster. I don’t care what you think of this post—I just want to say what I feel.

Comments

pluc•1h ago
Or don't build a community where idiots hang out
sinoue•1h ago
A great product doesn't need to pay for advertising because its customers readily see its value. Building a community can happen organically, but it goes better when you have an evangelist and a marketing budget to support community building. Having great Product Managers and QE testing is everything.
hingler36•58m ago
How do you know your product is great without feedback from a community?

Have you tried reaching out to "influencers" to get the word out on your product?

belibolt•53m ago
Having a community doesn't guarantee success, there are many examples of people with established communities not being able to convert that to a successful product. For example: https://longform.asmartbear.com/reputation/.

Besides creating a large community is probably just as hard as creating a good product.

motohagiography•45m ago
"idea guy" was one of the great misleading tropes of the last century.

not only do you need a community for a product, they need to like you too. i did a "hey i solved a lot of your job!" product once and it was received as well as it sounds.

do you have the respect or affection of others? of not, they wont want your thing no matter what it does. do you like them too? or is it something you think someone else should do?

the hardest part of make something someone wants is the someone part, and we have still made almost zero progress on solving that.

baubino•23m ago
“Community” is just the contemporary solopreneur’s version of marketing and marketing is just the process of building an audience. You need a market before you can sell (or at least before you can sell a lot and sell consistently).

Great products have always needed an audience to succeed. It’s just that the early internet convinced a bunch of people that direct-to-consumer sales was possible without marketing and without creating an audience. The internet certainly makes selling easier and you can do so with a relatively small audience but some audience is always necessary. Building an audience is good because then you don’t have to work as hard for the second sale (or the third or fourth). Big companies have known and understood this forever. This is why they have insane marketing budgets.