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Maybe he just has 34 friends online right now and has asked them to up vote? Does that count as manipulation?
YES. Normally, Hacker News detects and penalizes stupid upvote rigging. I'm curious how the OP bypassed it at such a scale.
Actually, judging by the ridiculous number of flags the post has also gotten, I think he just touched a nerve.
This is awesome, I love it. I want to try it but don't know what to ask
You don't think $10 for someone's opinion is a tad pricey?
Perhaps 5 bucks would be better, but considering an hourly wage and how much time I take to write stuff myself, ten bucks is not unreasonable. Also consider that, assuming this is a business (or could be), he's taking risk because there is no subscription or recurring payment whatsoever. I imagine this being a very variable business. If it would make a business in the first place.
I can get brutal honesty on Reddit for free. (And polite honesty, also for free, from Dear Abby.)
Reddit sprung to mind for me too. This is a bad idea. Fine, you pay $10 for someone's honest opinion, but it's just one person's opinion, you really want to consult multiple sources to get a balanced view, otherwise you could make a bad decision based on another person being in a shitty mood (for whatever reason). Plus, I find friends will be honest with you if you expressly give them permission to be, and promise no…
Paid version of "Nathan"
You mean "Ethan": http://www.textethan.com/
I know that type.
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He would have to respond to a lot of messages (100 000) to reach a million.
That's the thing about business ideas where revenue is directly tied to the work you have to do: scaling is super easy. getting more questions than you can handle by yourself? hire some friends to help.
Assuming he is an honest actor in this process he can't share your submission with anyone as then they wouldn't be private. It is specified that it is he, Jordan, who will email you, he will say how he feels.
It could have been set up differently to allow for scaling but part of the drawn I think is that it's a real, named and identifiable, individual that you are contacting.
Of course "Jordan" could be a made up person and this could be a way to gather information for social manipulation or straight-out blackmail, but you know ...