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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 maverick2007 »

mleonhard wrote: post #83
pascalxus wrote: post #18

I think it's awesome that HackerNews exists. Sadly, every other platform on the internet seems to criticize and discourage new products (except product hunt).

I spent >1 year building a new dating app. Somebody posted a dating app idea on reddit that closely matches what I built. I messaged the author asking for feedback on my design. They didn't reply and even downvoted my comment on their thread. https://www.reddit.com/r/dating/comments/exzcsm/dating_app_i... There are all kinds of people in the world. I'm glad HN exists. HN mods: Thanks for your hard work. HN commenters…

Not too derail this thread too much but I like the idea for your app, I made something similar for platonic friendships a while back and still am a big believer in the idea! How much traction have you gotten with your app?

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

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Post by dang »

OzzyB wrote: post #86
dang wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's not accurate, and this comment breaks the site guidelines against making accusations of astroturfing and manipulation without evidence. Please stick to the rules when commenting here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html . It's not ok to impugn someone's integrity just because of how something happens to look to you. The overwhelming majority of the time, these conclusions are wrong, it's the inter…

LOL whatever you say dude just flag me but don't insult my intelligence xD

I've spent countless hours poring over data and working on HN's anti-abuse systems—easily an order of magnitude more than everybody else put together who's worked on those things at HN. I've also banned many accounts for doing astroturfing and related abuses on HN. I can tell you that the only insult to intelligence here is when people imagine sinister scenarios out of a few data points and rush to comment threads to complain darkly and accuse others. Randomness plus cognitive bias equals narrative, and when that combines with internet memes like astroturfers-under-every-bed, the result is equal parts poisonous and stupid, which is why we don't allow it here. The overwhelming majority of these insinuations are pure projection. People simply make this shit up when they see something they don't like. It seems related to something hard-wired.

Edit: by the way, it occurs to me that one of the things you said ought to be publicly verifiable: "just look at the comment history on those accounts -- all inactive/active at around the same time". If so—which accounts? If you didn't simply make this up, it should be easy enough to point to which comments and accounts match this claim, from around the time you posted it. If I'm wrong, I'd be happy to admit the mistake and correct it.

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

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Post by dang »

11thEarlOfMar wrote: post #80
OzzyB wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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?

Since there are 250 people at the company, maybe they all wanted to congratulate their CEO and some didn't have accounts yet.

That fits a few of the data points but not the majority, who are established users coming from lots of different parts of the world.

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

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Post by jedberg »

sosuke wrote: post #66
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.

Wow, until this moment I hadn't really thought about how I've been using HN for over 13 years, and reddit for almost 15 years.

There are people who are using the internet who have never known the world without those things.

I feel older now.

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

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Post by skinnymuch »

Hope I’m not too late for some one to see my post. This is a huge inspiration and an amazing story.

I’m genuinely curious - not being a smart ass. Isn’t 250 employees a lot for the number listed ($20M+)? $2M of rev a month divided by 250+ people is only 7-8K a month. I guess if the majority are overseas that can work?

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

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Post by cushychicken »

skinnymuch wrote: post #99

Hope I’m not too late for some one to see my post. This is a huge inspiration and an amazing story. I’m genuinely curious - not being a smart ass. Isn’t 250 employees a lot for the number listed ($20M+)? $2M of rev a month divided by 250+ people is only 7-8K a month. I guess if the majority are overseas that can work?

VWO is based in India.
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