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Thank HN: My startup was born here and is now 10 years old

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Re: Thank HN: My startup was born here and is now 10 years old

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Post by RussianCow »

OzzyB wrote: post #55
kossTKR wrote: post #50

What's going on here exactly? Why does this post have an insane amount of upvotes and like 50 posts only with text like "Congratz my man!" or other people who seem to know this dude and contribute with nothing?

What do you think is going on? The call went out to upvote and "Congrats" spam this thread -- just look at the comment history on those accounts -- all inactive/active at around the same time. I guess that's the lesson being taught here, have an army of sockpuppet accounts ready for your "Tell HN" thread and grow your business!

> just look at the comment history on those accounts -- all inactive/active at around the same time.

What are you talking about? I just went through about half the accounts that have commented on here, and while a small handful do look suspicious, most are normal-looking accounts with over 100 rep. Maybe people are genuinely happy for the OP? Is that so hard to comprehend?

Re: Thank HN: My startup was born here and is now 10 years old

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Post by foxfired »

First of all congratulations. A lot of Show HN start enthusiastically and then a year later the domain name doesn't resolve anymore. I'm glad you kept jabbing.

In 2011, we were knee deep in google products. We used Google Analytics and the now defunct Google Web Optimizer (no not the one in GA). Our business team wasn't too happy about using GWO. There was something in the script triggered bounce rates in Google Analytics.

Our first solution was to build a script to manage which script to load first. But, we saw that if you don't load GA right away, the metrics were somehow off. But loading GA first sometimes double counts page views.

So as a result, I build an internal A/B testing tool that worked seamlessly. Since it was controlled in the back-end, I could decide when to load the script without causing the double page views. After months of testing, the business team decided to use Visual Web Optimizer. I was pretty pissed.

But, vwo solved the issues of double counting, and redirect. Not sure how it worked but everyone was happy about it. I started working exclusively with this tool and implemented it in a dozen teams. It was a great tool.

But then, a new manager was hired, he said he knew a better tool, and moved our team to optimizely. There was no reason whatsoever. Until I left, I kept recommending and implementing vwo in other teams for a/b testing.

Re: Thank HN: My startup was born here and is now 10 years old

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Post by gknoy »

kossTKR wrote: post #57
sedatk wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

HN don't let majority of the users downvote, that's what's going on.

This whole thread is a little bonkers. A dude posts what seems to be essentially a commercial for his company, extremely short and light on details and it gets 500+ upvotes in a couple of hours. But yeah maybe i have just become to cynical and my bullshit metre is off - and if that's the case i apologise and congratulate these dudes.

For what it's worth, I tend to upvote most "Show HN" threads, because I want to encourage new things. I've never seen a "Thank HN" post before, and thought that it was worth upvoting because it's nice to see success stories, especially when it's due in large part (according to the OP) on the advice given by this community when the product was in its infancy. I thought that was pretty cool.

Re: Thank HN: My startup was born here and is now 10 years old

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Post by nus07 »

kossTKR wrote: post #50

What's going on here exactly? Why does this post have an insane amount of upvotes and like 50 posts only with text like "Congratz my man!" or other people who seem to know this dude and contribute with nothing?

HN mods. This looks very sketchy. I looked at a some of the Congrats messages and the accounts were 3-20 days old. Why is this on the front page of HN to merit a discussion?

Re: Thank HN: My startup was born here and is now 10 years old

#66

Post by sosuke »

phreeza wrote: post #33

Somewhat meta, but great to see that most of the accounts on the original thread are still active. I haven't got a successful startup to show for it, but I have been on HN for more than 10 years, and feel like it has played a significant role in forming my worldview. I hope we'll still be here in another 10 (or 30) years, nitpicking each other's ideas!

I'm with you; 13 years(ish) now and I'm still trying to make something.

Re: Thank HN: My startup was born here and is now 10 years old

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Post by nus07 »

searchableguy wrote: post #58
kossTKR wrote: post #50

What's going on here exactly? Why does this post have an insane amount of upvotes and like 50 posts only with text like "Congratz my man!" or other people who seem to know this dude and contribute with nothing?

From the guidelines - Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email us and we'll look at the data.

No offense but your account was created 18 days ago. Something seems very weird about this post.

Re: Thank HN: My startup was born here and is now 10 years old

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Post by aloukissas »

kossTKR wrote: post #50

What's going on here exactly? Why does this post have an insane amount of upvotes and like 50 posts only with text like "Congratz my man!" or other people who seem to know this dude and contribute with nothing?

Love this guy's story. Wouldn't downvote it for anything. Let's all be nice and say "you're welcome - keep kicking ass".

Re: Thank HN: My startup was born here and is now 10 years old

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Post by OzzyB »

RussianCow wrote: post #61
OzzyB wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What do you think is going on? The call went out to upvote and "Congrats" spam this thread -- just look at the comment history on those accounts -- all inactive/active at around the same time. I guess that's the lesson being taught here, have an army of sockpuppet accounts ready for your "Tell HN" thread and grow your business!

> just look at the comment history on those accounts -- all inactive/active at around the same time. What are you talking about? I just went through about half the accounts that have commented on here, and while a small handful do look suspicious, most are normal-looking accounts with over 100 rep. Maybe people are genuinely happy for the OP? Is that so hard to comprehend?

> and while a small handful do look suspicious

Isn't that not what we're talking about? Maybe you weren't around to see all the "Congrats" comments and now the thread looks more legit -- I believe we call that "seeding", what do you call it?

Re: Thank HN: My startup was born here and is now 10 years old

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Post by icey »

kossTKR wrote: post #50

What's going on here exactly? Why does this post have an insane amount of upvotes and like 50 posts only with text like "Congratz my man!" or other people who seem to know this dude and contribute with nothing?

It's pretty cool to see something get launched here and have the founder come back TEN YEARS LATER to talk about it. That's crazy rare. HN was a little smaller then, so it's fun to see names you haven't seen in awhile talking about the same stuff as before.
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