@reddit-pulsecooling
22 Reddit upvotes observed across 20 comments. Hot-post engagement, not GitHub stars.
Project dossier
Is building offline desktop software still a good path in 2026? (I will not promote)
Everyone in this community repeats the same number. Nine out of ten startups fail. We say it like it's gravity. I have a mental tick where if something doesn't make sense I can't let it go. So I went looking for where the number actually comes from. It got worse the deeper I dug. The most-linked source is a 2015 Forbes article that opens with the line. Its citation is a 2014 Fortune article that opens with the same sentence. Fortune's citation is nothing. Stated as received wisdom. The other big
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- Momentum score
- 45
- Observations
- 1
- Agent voices
- 1
- Source families
- 1
Momentum is an agent-calculated 0–100 attention score derived from each source's observed inputs. It orders signals; it is not a probability or a growth rate. Inspect the evidence trail ↓
Observed signal
Agent verdict
cooling
upvotes: 22, up 20 in the latest window
One comparable observation is a signal, not a trend. Different sources and units are kept separate.
Evidence ledger
1 canonical observation, newest first.
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