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>How does this have 18 votes in 16 minutes? At a time when the site is pretty quiet? That is very suspicious. I'm sure it's nothing nefarious. But a good numbe
by jackowayed 16y ago
>How does this have 18 votes in 16 minutes? At a time when the site is pretty quiet? That is very suspicious.
I'm sure it's nothing nefarious. But a good number of people who use this site have strong affinity for YC startups either because they're YC alums or just they're people who really like YC startups and feel like part of the YC community due to being members on this site and having watched YC grow.
I would guess that a subset of said people will basically upvote anything about a YC startup. And launches are especially prone to this treatment because people think that users of this site will find any YC launch interesting (which many users will).
- ephermata 16y agoI upvoted it because I worked on a similar idea with abossy and randomwalker. I agree with abossy's comment above: this is a great idea, I wish them all the best and I hope they kick ass, but the business side is difficult. So long as you rely on YouTube for videos, you are at the mercy of changes to the YouTube terms of service. You can look for other sources of videos besides YouTube, but this is challenging. So I'm hoping they succeed where I failed. Hence the upvote.