Brave

OH FUCKING HELL the project I've been working on? I just got scooped by a superficially-similar-seeming product launch headed by a Huge Name with Major Connections. God fucking damnit. Now anything I release is going to look like it's in response to that thing. Which looks godawful. But because it is headed by a Huge Name it will suck all the air out of the room anyway.

Shit. And many other expletives.

EDIT

Thanks folks for your kind words after my little temper tantrum this afternoon. After some more research I'm no longer at all concerned -- the products (I'll stop being coy, it's brave.com) are far less similar that I at first thought, and our end goals are, let's say, entirely orthogonal. Which is nice, because I didn't fancy my chances going head to head against Brendan Eich.

Also it, uh, surprise, sorta turns out their product head is an old friend. Small world! (Hi, Elissa! I can't say I'm a fan of your company's business model, but, seriously, congratulations, that's a major step up)

So I'm taking this as the kick in the pants I needed to start moving more quickly, and (soon) more publicly, on this thing. Maybe even pick a name for it. (The domain name for my working title "unfuck the web" is taken. Probably for the best.) But I'll cook dinner first. The web'll probably wait *that* long at least

I hope