HN 提问：说服我不要搁置我的应用（我已经决定要搁置了）
2 分•作者: asdfbank•2 个月前
作为背景，我是一名在南非的会计师。
大约一年前，我开发了一款无广告、免费的应用程序，让人们可以免费与周围的人分享植物，因为当时还没有这样的应用。我的目标是让它稳定运行，并在家中作为爱好托管（几乎是免费的）。附带的好处是，它还能很好地连接人们，让他们分享花园里的植物。
一年过去了，这个爱好变得相当糟糕。应用程序还在运行，但是：
* 我刚意识到，如果我让我的开发者订阅过期，它就会从苹果商店消失（贪婪的混蛋！）
* 我选择了糟糕的名称，现在在美国无法使用，因为我收到了一封关于商标侵权的禁止函（贪婪的混蛋！）
* 尼日利亚的骗子注册了账号，并开始骚扰一些容易上当的目标（贪婪的混蛋！）
* AI生成的劣质克隆应用已经出现，甚至连屏幕布局都照搬（还配有那些让人作呕的彩虹色网站）（贪婪的混蛋！）
所以，如果我想继续这个爱好，我至少需要：
* 从应用程序转向 Web 前端，以摆脱谷歌和苹果的围墙花园。
* 重命名整个项目，因为显然美国的商标最终可以导致它在全球范围内被下架。
我感觉自己像个梗图的主角，拒绝接受互联网已经不是 20 年前的样子了，还以为自己能从中分一杯羹，创造出有用的、免费的东西，不受如今那些让一切都变得糟糕的贪婪混蛋的影响。
我的时间花在那些不与我作对、不让我对世界如此愤怒的爱好上会更有价值。
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For context, I'm an accountant in South Africa.<p>About a year ago I made an ad-free, free app to let people share plants with others around them for free, because there wasn't one. The goal was to get it stable and keep it online hosted at my home as a hobby (which is virtually free). Side bonus, it was also good at connecting people to share plants in their garden.<p>A year later and it's turned into quite a crappy hobby. The app is still going but:<p>- I just realised that it will disappear from apple's store when I let my developer sub lapse (greedy bastards!)
- I chose the name poorly and now it's not available in the US after I got a C&D letter for a TM infringement (greedy bastards!)
- Nigerian scammers signed up and started harassing some of the easy targets (greedy bastards!)
- AI slop clone apps have already popped up, copied down to the screen layout and all (complete with the vomit inducing websites with the rainbow colours and all) (greedy bastards!)<p>So if I want to keep this hobby going I need to at least:
- Pivot from an app to a web front end to get out of the google and apple walled gardens
- Rename the entire thing because apparently a US trademark can eventually get it taken down across the whole world.<p>I feel like the subject of a meme for refusing to accept that the internet is not the same as it was 20 years ago, and thinking that I could carve a piece of it out to make something useful and free and not affected by all the greedy bastards making everything shit these days.<p>My time will be better spent on my hobbies that don't fight me back and make me this angry at the world.