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1. Agnel Vishal ⓩ ‏ @agnelvishal 29 Aug 2020
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  Does anything exists similar to https://condense.press ?
  
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1. Mayank Chhabra ‏ @MayankDotCh 29 Aug 2020
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  "Most SaaS products are just arbitrage on cron jobs"
  
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1. Konstantin Schubert‏ @KonSchubert 29 Aug 2020
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  The classic dropbox comment.
  
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1. Cy Najjar‏ @cyrillenajjar 29 Aug 2020
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  It’s a matter of bandwidth, yes we can all build it with a few lines of code, but we’d much rather pay $4.99 a month so we can focus on what drives our business forward.
  
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1. Sriram Krishnan‏Verified account @sriramk 29 Aug 2020
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  The classic Dropbox response.
  
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1. Paul Katsen‏ @pavtalk 29 Aug 2020
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  I'd love to see that for a SpaceX launch. Reusable rockets? This already exists. Just take... (1000 paragraphs later) ... and write a cron job to do z.
  
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1. ً‏ @yashevde 29 Aug 2020
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  I still really enjoy hacker news overall. But out of curiosity, what have y’all tried to do in order to curb this sort of cynicism on the site? It’s really not great that there’s such a negative meme around what is otherwise an excellent community.
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1. Gregory Rose‏ @grrosegr 29 Aug 2020
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  Then just constantly upgrade it, maintain it, reintegrate it, add new features as needed, and get off my lawn
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