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)
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'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'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's turned into quite a crappy hobby. The app is still going but:<p>- I just realised that it will disappear from apple's store when I let my developer sub lapse (greedy bastards!)
- I chose the name poorly and now it's not available in the US after I got a C&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't fight me back and make me this angry at the world.