Hey! Don't you think saying such things is demotivating? Many (mainly beginners) programmers won't do side-projects because of thinking "it already exists so why should I do it?". Meanwhile, we have multiple applications for listening to music, web browsers, games even frameworks and libraries doing basically the same things. And developers of them didn't think "don't do this new music app, there are plenty of such in the market".
The best approach is: I know there are many things like my project but how can I make mine better than others? What can I improve, do in a different way? Innovative?
Hey! Don't you think saying such things is demotivating? Many (mainly beginners) programmers won't do side-projects because of thinking "it already exists so why should I do it?". Meanwhile, we have multiple applications for listening to music, web browsers, games even frameworks and libraries doing basically the same things. And developers of them didn't think "don't do this new music app, there are plenty of such in the market".
The best approach is: I know there are many things like my project but how can I make mine better than others? What can I improve, do in a different way? Innovative?
Do not kill creativity!
I don't think he is responsible for anyone's feelings or creativity nor is he trying to kill it.