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Thanks for this. It was really fun to watch a CEO completely torpedo his startup in less than 24 hours by publicly flipping the bird to a message board filled w

Thanks for this. It was really fun to watch a CEO completely torpedo his startup in less than 24 hours by publicly flipping the bird to a message board filled with its would-be users for some reason I cannot begin to fathom. We should do this again sometime. EDIT: After reading through a bunch of the CEO's comments, I'm now seriously concerned there may be a mental illness at play. I probably shouldn't have made light of the situation; calling out several users such as minimaxir as Alex from LiveCoding honestly seems delusional.

dongping 11y ago
The CEO is not even trying to do the damage control.
- austenallred 11y ago
  They're tweeting that most of the comments on here are coming from competitors. I think the problem is they're so overly defensive they're completely in denial.
  - profmonocle 11y ago
    Claiming that everyone criticizing them is a competitor or a banned user seems to cross the line from overly defensive to paranoid.
denniskane 11y ago
But in reality, Hacker News doesn't merely represent a large potential user base... there is almost a hardcoded, "#include <HackerNews.h>" kind of dependency for anything that claims to be a platform for sharing the development of software products.
cjslep 11y ago
> We should do this again sometime. I completely understand the glee to be had watching a clueless CEO bumblefuck their customer relations, but I really do not wish for this to happen to anyone else.