I run a language learning site / web app that is totally free, no ads too, going on about 8 years now. It's for one specific language that has not had much attention from the software community but could use it.
I've never tried to promote it and have never updated it much, but there have been some random people over the years who have given me money. I had a few people send me 50$ unprompted, plus some people I met IRL pay for dinners and things like that when the topic came up.
Reddit can't even handle copy-pasting into the comment box unless the cursor is at the end of what's typed already. It starts to run up my i7 if I have just a few of those comment boxes open at once.
Navigating back to the list of submissions, which are already in the DOM and are literally visible through a transparency, takes like nearly a second.
Of course the back button doesn't work in most cases. It's pretty embarrassing if it's not intentional.
Hahaha, now that is pathetic! Hope the money is worth it, because everyone with integrity knows that you're nothing more than a bunch of doormats and spineless bitches for your corporate masters.
If it was trivially possible, Firefox would already be doing it.
I am thoroughly unconvinced of this, as a Firefox user for two decades. There are so many simple power-user features that Firefox has chosen to ignore.
> until our offsprings are old enough to carry on (30 - 40 years)
I see this all the time. If you saw how pre-modern (extended) families actually function, you'd know that the survival of younger offspring is strongly influenced by what the 40+ year old members of the family are or aren't able to do.
Yeah, that's pretty much all you'll get out of HN - yet another rehashing of a slightly-contrarian justification for "doing nothing about the status quo".
What are you talking about, you noxious tool? Wealth inequality is higher than ever since before the 1960s. There is every indication that reducing poverty improves educational outcomes.
I've never tried to promote it and have never updated it much, but there have been some random people over the years who have given me money. I had a few people send me 50$ unprompted, plus some people I met IRL pay for dinners and things like that when the topic came up.