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I've seen a few posts on HN that don't have all of the normal operations one can make on your average post. They are usually for YC startup job posts. So in som
by agitator 9y ago
I've seen a few posts on HN that don't have all of the normal operations one can make on your average post. They are usually for YC startup job posts. So in some aspect, YC is making money by targeting job advertising for their startups directly to the hiring pool they wish to pick from. If they help their startups hire top talent, they are more likely to profit from their investments.
In general though, most of the sites have some kind of semi-hidden posts among the others that are actually advertisements.
There is one currently on the HN front page for "Etleap Is Hiring Data Engineers..." No submitter, no upvote arrow, no comment ability, but it's at #6.
- sotojuan 9y agoSure, but this only works for HN because of its reputation. I think OP is asking for new communities. Also, HN is a special case because it's probably cheap and could be funded by any YC member's pocket.
- agitator 9y agoReddit does something similar. I think most sites of this sort do that. It's just that obviously you want to build a community, web traffic, and reputation, before interspersing advertisements. I think if you are going to build something like that, the strategy is to build a site that has value first and monetize later.
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