No, not every HN thread, but "Every Google product".
This is an entirely valid concern borne out by history. Until Google goes to extraordinary measures to prove that it will be unusually long-lived, you should assume that it will be dead in a few years.
"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results."
> we should go into every Show HN and say their project will be dead
It would be totally fair to ask an upstart DocuSign competitor about their wind-down process. The fact that I’m more confident they will have thought that through is the problem.
Show HN threads don't repeatedly come from the same guy popping in with his unlimited amounts of money that he used to make yet another side project that some people will use for a few years while he gathers your data then decides to kill because it wasn't an immediate smashing success, or he wanted to redo it cause the other one was old.
Most people aren't affected by those vaproware products. Most people are tied into Google one way or another, and changes they make can affect everybody.
"people" don't. This is largely just a hn-ism which I've pretty much never heard outside of this bubble. In any case, repeating a cliche response on any news out of Google isn't any kind of substantive contribution to the discussion and makes for a poor hn comment even if it was true.
... did you not read any news at all covering Stadia? Like... any of it? At all??? Google's propensity for killing projects is absolutely in the mainstream mindset.
Signatures aren’t a move-fast-and-break-things domain. Google’s culture is bad at maintenance and wind-down. I would react negatively to someone sending me a Google e-sign without having considered these questions.
