Lovinghate – Share what you love and hate

Name: Lovinghate – Share what you love and hate
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Author: goshua

by goshua·Apr 11, 2026·1 point·0 comments

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AI Analysis

●MidShip It

Social voting for hot takes when Reddit and Twitter already exist.

Strengths

•Cloudflare Workers and D1 stack ensures low latency and minimal costs.
•Simple three-option voting reduces friction compared to complex comment threads.
•SvelteKit frontend provides fast interactions without heavy JavaScript bundles.

Weaknesses

•Network effects required for value make cold start extremely difficult.
•The Hater app already validated and abandoned this concept years ago.

Post Description

I saw that one Tom Cruise interview where he’s ranting about psychology and I hated the guy so much I figured there had to be other people who felt the same way. I even bought the domain name and started planning how to build the app, but then the Hater app actually launched and I thought I'd missed my chance, so I put the idea away. That was 10 years ago, today I finally launched Lovinghate to share what you love and hate.

Tech Stack: Sveltekit, Tailwind, Drizzle. Hosted entirely on Cloudflare: Workers, D1, R2.