请问HN:说服我不要搁置我的应用程序(我已经决定要搁置了)

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为了提供一些背景,我是一名南非的会计师。 大约一年前,我开发了一款无广告、免费的应用程序,让人们可以与周围的人免费分享植物,因为当时没有类似的应用。我的目标是让它保持稳定,并作为一个爱好在我家托管(这几乎是免费的)。额外的好处是,它也很好地连接了人们,让他们分享自己花园里的植物。 一年过去了,这个爱好变得相当糟糕。应用程序仍在运行,但: - 我刚意识到,当我停止支付开发者订阅时,它将从苹果商店消失(贪婪的家伙!) - 我选择的名字不当,现在在美国无法使用,因为我收到了关于商标侵权的停止和 desist(C&D)信(贪婪的家伙!) - 尼日利亚骗子注册了账号,并开始骚扰一些容易的目标(贪婪的家伙!) - 复制我的应用的AI低劣克隆应用已经出现,甚至连界面布局都一模一样(还有那些让人恶心的五彩斑斓的网站)(贪婪的家伙!) 所以,如果我想继续这个爱好,我至少需要: - 从应用程序转向网页前端,以摆脱谷歌和苹果的封闭生态 - 重新命名整个项目,因为显然美国的商标最终可能会导致它在全球范围内被下架。 我感觉自己像是一个梗的主角,拒绝接受互联网与20年前已经大相径庭,并认为我可以在其中开辟一片天地,创造一些有用且免费的东西,而不受那些贪婪的家伙影响,让一切变得糟糕。 我觉得把时间花在那些不会让我感到愤怒的爱好上会更有意义。
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For context, I&#x27;m an accountant in South Africa.<p>About a year ago I made an ad-free, free app to let people share plants with others around them for free, because there wasn&#x27;t one. The goal was to get it stable and keep it online hosted at my home as a hobby (which is virtually free). Side bonus, it was also good at connecting people to share plants in their garden.<p>A year later and it&#x27;s turned into quite a crappy hobby. The app is still going but:<p>- I just realised that it will disappear from apple&#x27;s store when I let my developer sub lapse (greedy bastards!) - I chose the name poorly and now it&#x27;s not available in the US after I got a C&amp;D letter for a TM infringement (greedy bastards!) - Nigerian scammers signed up and started harassing some of the easy targets (greedy bastards!) - AI slop clone apps have already popped up, copied down to the screen layout and all (complete with the vomit inducing websites with the rainbow colours and all) (greedy bastards!)<p>So if I want to keep this hobby going I need to at least: - Pivot from an app to a web front end to get out of the google and apple walled gardens - Rename the entire thing because apparently a US trademark can eventually get it taken down across the whole world.<p>I feel like the subject of a meme for refusing to accept that the internet is not the same as it was 20 years ago, and thinking that I could carve a piece of it out to make something useful and free and not affected by all the greedy bastards making everything shit these days.<p>My time will be better spent on my hobbies that don&#x27;t fight me back and make me this angry at the world.