Ask HN: Why is there some sort of a scam website being advertised on HN? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Why is there some sort of a scam website being advertised on HN?

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Post by 9timesoutoften » Mon, Jun 22, 2026, 2:31 PM UTC

Aurornis wrote: post #27

eggbrain wrote: post #18

Gauntlet AI I believe is correlated originally with Lambda School (YC S17). YC founders I believe are able to post job postings on Hacker News, although this might stretch the definition a bit...

Austen Allred started GauntletAI after his Lambda School bootcamp (now BloomTech) was fined, banned from participating in lending activities, and became too toxic to escape their old brand. It's not clear to me why he gets to post privileged ads on Hacker News. Is GauntletAI a division of BloomTech, and therefore considered a YC portfolio company? These aren't even job ads. GauntletAI is a recruiting play. They make…

Anyone who joins Gauntlet should know 70 percent of cohort 1 lost their job in under 7 months, and roughly 1/3 of each cohort does not get a job.

Re: Ask HN: Why is there some sort of a scam website being advertised on HN?

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Post by 9timesoutoften » Mon, Jun 22, 2026, 2:33 PM UTC

austentexas wrote: post #50

Aurornis wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Austen Allred started GauntletAI after his Lambda School bootcamp (now BloomTech) was fined, banned from participating in lending activities, and became too toxic to escape their old brand. It's not clear to me why he gets to post privileged ads on Hacker News. Is GauntletAI a division of BloomTech, and therefore considered a YC portfolio company? These aren't even job ads. GauntletAI is a recruiting play. They make…

As one of Austen’s haters, he’s fun to follow. End of last year he announced that he was going to relaunch a bankrupt company called Marin Software and have a documentary crew follow them and do it all with AI in a month or something. A few weeks later, wow, they’ve booked $1.2m of revenue! And then he never mentioned it again. Documentary never surfaced. Website doesn’t work. https://xcancel.com/Austen/status/200135…

1.2m of revenue was 120k in the first month, a lot of the money came from Joe Liemandt and alpha school affiliates. Austen is a snake oil salesman.

Re: Ask HN: Why is there some sort of a scam website being advertised on HN?

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Post by newdev443 » Fri, Jun 26, 2026, 9:36 AM UTC

9timesoutoften wrote: post #61

Aurornis wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Austen Allred started GauntletAI after his Lambda School bootcamp (now BloomTech) was fined, banned from participating in lending activities, and became too toxic to escape their old brand. It's not clear to me why he gets to post privileged ads on Hacker News. Is GauntletAI a division of BloomTech, and therefore considered a YC portfolio company? These aren't even job ads. GauntletAI is a recruiting play. They make…

Anyone who joins Gauntlet should know 70 percent of cohort 1 lost their job in under 7 months, and roughly 1/3 of each cohort does not get a job.

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