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

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.