you're right. my opinion of whether i see any value in the app in my life is directly attributable to what i may or may not have built.

thank you.

You missed my point. I meant to imply that I figured you hadn't ever built something and submitted it for approval to a community before. If you had, you'd know that receiving comments like "I see no use for this" in such a blunt manner is discouraging and overall an unhealthy bit of feedback to receive.

Sure, I could be wrong.

[insert comment here about the degrading quality of HN lately]

EDIT: comments like that are also unhelpful.

I didn't say 'I see no use for this'.

I said 'not seeing a big need for this in my life.'

Those are entirely different sentiments. What I said is very specific to ME. to my life.

And I think understanding how many people see a need for a product in their life is important to know. We need to hear that when we are building things rather than just the pleasant loop of 'great idea'.

And btw... I don't think I missed your point. I think it was pretty clear.

It is definitely just as useful to have negative feedback as well as positive. However, your comment could have been a lot more useful had it been more constructive.

For example, just saying that you see no need for it isn't enough to be helpful. You could be an eskimo with no map coverage, in which case of course it's not useful. What would have been useful is explaining WHY it's not useful to you, or more specifically what your current workflow is that this is not better than.

But you're right, no one benefits from a loop of "great idea"... which seems to be the only feedback you get most of the time.

You are very correct...

So in case this is still going... I don't see any great need for this in my life because I don't share addresses in this fashion. I type out the address in an email or give it over the phone or in a text message. 90% of the time, in a text message as it is my primary means of communication with people who I would need to share a physical address with.

Perhaps the most useful comment thus far. Does anyone outside of the SV bubble actually see a need for a url shortener for real world addresses?

Someone, please explain the value proposition for obfusticating an address when every modern browser now includes automatic address recognition that can link to a map without obfusticating this information?