Aren't half the comments on HackerNews basically "I work on a similar project, check out my project"? Although extra suspicious when it's a green user. Which t

Aren't half the comments on HackerNews basically "I work on a similar project, check out my project"? Although extra suspicious when it's a green user. Which to be fair, I'm entirely fine with as long as the projects are legitimate. In the world of programming, there are so many cool and useful libraries, services and tools out there that you have little hope to find out about them otherwise.