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In our context, we used to talk about all the new tech innovations, languages, frameworks or new products.

I always want to build a better "mousetrap", I'm an engineer/product guy first, and he was a hustler first. If my approach was to build a better product, his approach was to be a better hustler promoting a product and getting it adopted.



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Like "hacker", the word "hustler" can have positive or negative meaning. In this case it's the latter.

From Oxford:

> an aggressively enterprising person; a go-getter.


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A bit rich coming from someone who was promoting their company on HN just one day ago.


The product in question is really good, not snake oil.


How many good products need hustlers? We're living in the age of easy product/service discovery.




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