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gunta | 6 months ago

Ha, you know what? Your actually making my case for me. 'Markdown is the universal language of AI' - yeah ok, I got carried away with the marketing speak there. Guilty. But here's the thing tho... every single AI model is literally trained on github. When you ask ChatGPT or Claude to write docs, what format does it use? Markdown. When you feed it code documentation, whats it expecting? Markdown. Its not some cosmic truth, its just... practical reality. But yeah, calling it "universal language" was cringe, I'll give you that. You might remember the recent debate of JSON vs XML vs Markdown: https://x.com/_Anshuman_Jha/status/1953826030084665804 Anyways.

'Vaporware',, This is EXACTLY the problme I'm trying to solve here https://gunta.github.io/PRiority/ !! You know what vaporware actually is? Its when someone builds for 6 months in secret, launches with huge promises, then disappears with peoples money.

What I'm doing is literally the opposite - I'm asking 'will you pay for this?' BEFORE I build anything. If people say no (with their wallets), I build nothing. Zero vaporware created.

Think about it... I've collected hundreds of dollars in 24hrs for something that I explicitly tell people DOESN'T EXIST YET. Thats not vaporware - thats just pre-orders with honesty.

The difference? Traditional vaporware: Build promises → Take money → Never deliver My approach: Take commitments → Hit threshold or refund → Build only what's funded

'Buzzwords and hype' - You got me there. But you know what else is hype? Every successful product launch ever. The difference is whether you deliver after the hype or not.

The github bot? I could literally build it tonight if I wanted. Its not that complicated - parse PRs, check payment status, merge or don't merge. The tech is trivial. The innovation (if you can even call it that) is just asking 'who wants this enough to pay?' before writing a single line of code.

Your skepticism is totally valid btw. We've all seen too much BS in tech. But engagment is signal too - even you cared enough to comment. And honestly? I'd rather have skeptics keeping me honest than cheerleaders enabling vaporware.

The real test: if I don't deliver after taking money, come back and roast me. Screenshot this. I'll deserve it.

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