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Show HN: Curiosity of the Day
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#32Cool concept - maybe make it a little more different than the Numbers API. Actually see a lot of potential based on how interested people are in short-form fun facts and knowledge. Good luck!
Yeah, I'm adding a feature so you can filter by interests, using AI. Thanks!
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#33My thoughts after visiting the site, in order: 1. Cool, I didn't know that fact 2. This is a nice, simple site 3. Maybe I should make it my New Tab page... 4. Where are the other facts -- can I browse them somehow? I want to see how good they are and if they align with my interests 5. Oh, there's no history, I guess this is the first fact, weird 6. scroll down Oh, this is a thinly veiled AD for a web dev studio... 7.…
This comment is so unbelievably on-brand for HN it's hard to tell if it's parody or not.
Re: Show HN: Curiosity of the Day
#34This is great! Until you realize that it's a cheap rip-off of http://numbersapi.com/ without giving credit. Shame on you, ae.studio. If that's how you work, you failed with this ad and won't get me as your customer. Or employee. (To clarify: I don't find it a problem that this page contains an ad for their studio. It's out of sight, which is nice. What I'm taking issue with is that they are not attributing where they…
Thanks for the feedback, I can definitely see how this could be distasteful. Not attributing was 100% an accident and I fixed asap. Like I mentioned in another comment: I'm part of a team that builds fast projects regularly and we have a default global footer that is applied to every site (see here for example: https://www.ghostlystock.com/ ) so unfortunately something we built to be tasteful was misinterpreted becau…
It's not the footer that is the problem. It's not telling anybody that you're recycling other people's work.
I explicitly pointed out that the footer is fine. I generally like this type of ad the most -- do some great work, publish it, tell everybody who you are and that you are hiring or open for business opportunities. But this backfires if the thing you built is questionable.
I believe that this was an honest mistake. But unfortunately a quite telling one regarding team culture. Building things fast should not be an excuse for ripping other people off.