Congrats on the launch, Michael!
Thanks Chuck! It's been cool getting feedback from you and the team the last few months. Customer-guided feedback FTW
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Re: ShadowTraffic: Rapidly simulate production traffic to your backend
#12This is a weirdly astroturfed post, a full 50% of the top level comments are the author or accounts created moments before this post, specifically to comment here.
I'm still interested in the product, but I've already got a bad taste in my mouth. If it's good, leave it to speak for itself.
Re: ShadowTraffic: Rapidly simulate production traffic to your backend
#13This is a weirdly astroturfed post, a full 50% of the top level comments are the author or accounts created moments before this post, specifically to comment here. I'm still interested in the product, but I've already got a bad taste in my mouth. If it's good, leave it to speak for itself.
Hey, author here. No foul activity was intended.
I've been building in public on Twitter and LinkedIn over the last few months and pre-announced the launch a few weeks in advance. I think a lot of the comments here were just folks flowing through there.
Re: ShadowTraffic: Rapidly simulate production traffic to your backend
#14I frequently have this problem throughout my product development process: dev, testing especially under load or for edge failure cases, and demo/sales engineering. Great product, solid API and devex, and it’s been fun following Michael’s journey of building a product quickly and in public.
Re: ShadowTraffic: Rapidly simulate production traffic to your backend
#15Congrats on the launch Michael. I dreamt of this back when I was an SE at RJMetrics :)
Re: ShadowTraffic: Rapidly simulate production traffic to your backend
#16This is a weirdly astroturfed post, a full 50% of the top level comments are the author or accounts created moments before this post, specifically to comment here. I'm still interested in the product, but I've already got a bad taste in my mouth. If it's good, leave it to speak for itself.
Hey, author here. No foul activity was intended. I've been building in public on Twitter and LinkedIn over the last few months and pre-announced the launch a few weeks in advance. I think a lot of the comments here were just folks flowing through there.
Lol. You’ve been caught red handed and you still double down. Take the L.
Re: ShadowTraffic: Rapidly simulate production traffic to your backend
#17This is a weirdly astroturfed post, a full 50% of the top level comments are the author or accounts created moments before this post, specifically to comment here. I'm still interested in the product, but I've already got a bad taste in my mouth. If it's good, leave it to speak for itself.
Why would the author replying to comments be a bad thing? Shouldn’t be counted in the “50% imo”
As for the potential of fake accounts - doesn’t HN have protection against this?
Re: ShadowTraffic: Rapidly simulate production traffic to your backend
#18This is a weirdly astroturfed post, a full 50% of the top level comments are the author or accounts created moments before this post, specifically to comment here. I'm still interested in the product, but I've already got a bad taste in my mouth. If it's good, leave it to speak for itself.
Why would the author replying to comments be a bad thing? Shouldn’t be counted in the “50% imo” As for the potential of fake accounts - doesn’t HN have protection against this?
I'm talking about the top level comments, that is to say, comments posted directly in reply to the post itself. At the time, of the six comments, 1 was the author, and two were his colleagues who created accounts Isn't it strange that 3 accounts were created moments before the post and then all happened to make their first and only comments on this post, each with strongly positive responses and not disclosing any link to the project?
A further account has been created since then:
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=chucklarrieu
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=botcanics
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=bcalderwood
I do understand that HN has voter ring detection which seeks to cluster groups of users who engage strongly in cooperative voting, but the accounts here are probably too new to establish a pattern strong enough to call a voting ring already.
Re: ShadowTraffic: Rapidly simulate production traffic to your backend
#19Good luck for the launch, Michael!
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why would the author replying to comments be a bad thing? Shouldn’t be counted in the “50% imo” As for the potential of fake accounts - doesn’t HN have protection against this?
I'm talking about the top level comments, that is to say, comments posted directly in reply to the post itself. At the time, of the six comments, 1 was the author, and two were his colleagues who created accounts Isn't it strange that 3 accounts were created moments before the post and then all happened to make their first and only comments on this post, each with strongly positive responses and not disclosing any li…
They are followers, colleagues, supporters as I am.
Is it against the rule to support a friend?