Sunk Cost

The 336 tracked comments (top 25 shown: 24 HackerNews, 1 Lemmy) are forum discussions about the sunk cost fallacy, not reviews of any purchasable product. Three distinct threads appear. (1) A founder's two-year startup post-mortem draws heavy, constructive criticism: commenters attack the bloated MVP definition ('it's gotta have rich text editing capability and pdf export and offline support and nice ui!'), note the founder repeatedly rewrote from scratch ('the classic: previous code is bad so I rewrite it from scratch... then came to a conclusion that his own code is bad'), and warn about semi-motivated partners ('Most people are not cut out for startups'). Technical debate covers Firebase's ~15-minute setup vs Postgres-on-Heroku, CouchDB denormalization as a known anti-pattern that broke linked-document updates without transactions, and brittle SQL migrations ('you also have to migrate the data. In my experience this is by far the slowest/most complex step'). The most-upvoted tactical takeaway is a 14-28 day rule: 'avoid anything that doesn't get you closer to a customer in the next 14-28 days.' One commenter is blunt about the author ('I think the guy has just low technical skills'), while most are sympathetic ('Everyone screws up some things, and nails some other ones'). (2) An Emacs thread explicitly rejects sunk-cost explanations for tool loyalty: 'I use Emacs specifically because it's a huge time saver for me,' from a user who spent a month in Panic Nova to test lock-in; a 32-33-year user says knowledge from the nineties is 'still valid and useful nowadays'; complaints include Org's lack of a formal spec ('the Org format is what Emacs says it is') and basic out-of-the-box M-x completion. (3) A single Lemmy comment (+177) frames Reddit moderation as 'tolerating the abusive person because you don't want to completely lose contact with many other people you care about.' No comment mentions a brand, price, or purchasable item.

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