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I'm always amused when I see an article like this at the top of Hacker News. I come here for interesting technical articles and discussion on computer science t
by jitl 10y ago
I'm always amused when I see an article like this at the top of Hacker News. I come here for interesting technical articles and discussion on computer science topics, not this sort-of marketing noise^H^H^H^H^H advice targeted at "entrepreneurs".
I wonder how much overlap there is between upvoters of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12539522 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12539522 (L4 microkernels...) and this article (Five Types of Virality). It would be very interesting if Hacker News could release some anonymized voting information so we could visualize our community's various clusters.
- j03m1 10y agoWhen I see posts like this I just assume everyone at [ insert company y ] up voted.
- ismdubey 10y agoactually, I submitted this post and have nothing to do with Greylock. I am an entrepreneur myself trying to grow my product. Hence, I think about virality all the time. The audience here is also interested in growth as is clear by the upvotes.
- daveguy 10y agoJust because you submitted it doesn't mean everyone at company y isn't alerting on posts about their company and voting them up. But I do agree this is an entrepreneurial topic of general interest.
- ismdubey 10y agoTheoretically, you might be right. But, I seriously doubt someone at GreyLock would have noticed until it was upvoted enough no of times to be on top.
- bitshiffed 10y agoI followed the link, having misread it as "File Types of Virality" and thinking it was something about file formats, relating to hosting viruses.