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Ask HN: What should a stranger know first about your unfinished project?

1 points by toddy_flogsit ↗ HN
If you could hand one of your unfinished projects to a stranger tomorrow, what's the one thing you'd want them to know first? Mine would be "the clever part is also the part that breaks."

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boricj
Professional project? Try not to screw up or the banks of lead-acid batteries might catch fire and/or explode.

Personal project? Take all that you've learned in CS 101 and throw it into the trashbin; welcome to Mad Max-driven development, where ABIs are but a suggestion and you might accidentally end up presenting a poster at ACM CCS as a hobbyist (true story).

austin-cheney
It features the fastest WebSocket library ever written, which means lower costs across the board.
Gtex555
I thought about a website like Hackertube over 10 years ago, but everyone is missing the important lesson:

Quality cannot be automated in content creation.

harishbala
It’ll make sure agents automatically deployed will be much more secure than otherwise.
Northernator11
The project is in great shape my codex and claude chats are a mess.
johncch
There are really some good ideas in there, but you might have to look for it