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The shameless support posts by execs/founders at launch partners are slimy! You guys should be ashamed. This isn't your marketing site, it's for discussion.

by hashkb 9y ago

treehau5 9y ago
Might as well slather banner ads all over this post at this point.
javajosh 9y ago
I'm not affiliated with anyone doing this, but a) I haven't seen anything yet, and b) in general, the availability of (even commercial) options is valid discussion. Plus, I'm not unsympathetic: developer tooling is notoriously difficult to market, and it's hard to pass up an opportunity like a Hacker News front-page story about an almost universally loved service (GitHub) building a dev tool marketplace to talk about your dev tools! When Valve announced Steam you think game devs weren't gushing about their games? Of course they were.
- stephenr 9y ago
  They've basically all been downvoted to death. HN submissions are open, nothing stops them writing a blog post and submitting that. The similarity of the posts makes it seem like a coordinated effort by those involved. A circle jerk of marketing bullshit, if you will.
moron4hire 9y ago
So what the hell is "Show HN" but marketing?
- simplehuman 9y ago
  This isnt a show hn
- stephenr 9y ago
  Show HN is expected to be submitted by the person who made the thing to show, and it's expected that they're showing it for a reason: it's either new, or had a significant change. Edit: So technically, GH probably could have had their new shit posted as a Show HN: but you generally want that to be something people can 'play' with right away, not a blog post about a way to pay more for the same things. /Edit My best guess with what happened here (based on the similarity of the texts) is that GH arranged a pre-formatted 'base' text, with placeholders, sent it to each of the involved CEOs/whatevers and said "we will submit our story to HN, once we do please comment using this template". Every one of the comments basically matches this pseudo-regex: "<Name> (at|from) <Company> [1] ..... one of the ([:digit:] <App Category>)? launch partners" and the [1] is referenced as a link to GitHub Marketplace. Only one has a link to their own site. The HN story itself was submitted by someone who at least used to be, and based on that, likely still is a GH employee. I assume they were trying to drum up lots of positive attention about this with the cool-kid me-too cargo-culting developer set that makes up a large part of HN readers.

The shameless support posts by execs/founders at launch partners are slimy! You guys should be ashamed. This isn't your marketing site, it's for discussion.

by hashkb 9y ago

The shameless support posts by execs/founders at launch partners are slimy! You guys should be ashamed. This isn't your marketing site, it's for discussion.

treehau5 9y ago

Might as well slather banner ads all over this post at this point.

javajosh 9y ago

I'm not affiliated with anyone doing this, but a) I haven't seen anything yet, and b) in general, the availability of (even commercial) options is valid discussion. Plus, I'm not unsympathetic: developer tooling is notoriously difficult to market, and it's hard to pass up an opportunity like a Hacker News front-page story about an almost universally loved service (GitHub) building a dev tool marketplace to talk about your dev tools! When Valve announced Steam you think game devs weren't gushing about their games? Of course they were.

stephenr 9y ago
They've basically all been downvoted to death. HN submissions are open, nothing stops them writing a blog post and submitting that. The similarity of the posts makes it seem like a coordinated effort by those involved. A circle jerk of marketing bullshit, if you will.

moron4hire 9y ago

So what the hell is "Show HN" but marketing?

simplehuman 9y ago
This isnt a show hn
stephenr 9y ago
Show HN is expected to be submitted by the person who made the thing to show, and it's expected that they're showing it for a reason: it's either new, or had a significant change. Edit: So technically, GH probably could have had their new shit posted as a Show HN: but you generally want that to be something people can 'play' with right away, not a blog post about a way to pay more for the same things. /Edit My best guess with what happened here (based on the similarity of the texts) is that GH arranged a pre-formatted 'base' text, with placeholders, sent it to each of the involved CEOs/whatevers and said "we will submit our story to HN, once we do please comment using this template". Every one of the comments basically matches this pseudo-regex: "<Name> (at|from) <Company> [1] ..... one of the ([:digit:] <App Category>)? launch partners" and the [1] is referenced as a link to GitHub Marketplace. Only one has a link to their own site. The HN story itself was submitted by someone who at least used to be, and based on that, likely still is a GH employee. I assume they were trying to drum up lots of positive attention about this with the cool-kid me-too cargo-culting developer set that makes up a large part of HN readers.