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I'm not sure I believe that this was posted by an innocent bystander. Marvin85 appears to have been created for the sole purpose of posting to HN, it's only sub

by num1 16y ago

I'm not sure I believe that this was posted by an innocent bystander. Marvin85 appears to have been created for the sole purpose of posting to HN, it's only submission and comment both belong to this thread (although I can't explain how old it is, 220 days). I'll buy that a staff member (tomazstolfa) happened to be watching HN and was able to respond within minutes, but that's dubious, presumably there are more important things for a startup to be doing. My real concern is that the link given here is an invitation link, and not the real homepage of vox.io . I'd assume that normal invitation links only work for a single user, and this one appears to be able to absorb quite a few people, I was able to sign on without any hiccups. Now there's nothing wrong with plugging yourself on HN, if you've created a useful or interesting service people are glad to pay attention to and, more importantly, discuss you. However misrepresentation is not something that I think I can endorse. With all that said, I like the idea of vox.io . I think I'm going to stick to my unhappy combination of google voice and skype for now though. vox.io doesn't seem to provide me anything I don't already have except shady marketing techniques.

jan_g 16y ago
Well, it's like this. With invitations one receives 0.15€ of credit for every new registered user (similar to some other services, which reward you for bringing in new users). Marvin85 obviously tried to cash in by posting invite link. But I don't see anything terribly wrong with that. There are no hidden marketing techniques and I am not aware that Marvin85 is in any way connected to our team.
Marvin85 16y ago
Actually the account is this old since i created it 220 days ago, but only read hacker news, never did anything else. Today I learned about vox.io from multiple sources and saw the possibility of getting 0.15€ per referral. I did not yet see a link to vox.io on hacker news so I decided it was worth I try. And with that I made 18€ in referrals. I am not ashamed of this, since I only exploited the given oportunity. I am not involved with the vox.io team and any other user can get 0.15€ per referral. If anybody wants to contact me.. I am also known as TomyMMX on other sites and places. With this info you can get my real name and everything.
tomazstolfa 16y ago
Num1, we were a bit surprised by all the new traffic coming from HN on our Chartbeat dashboard and I followed the link here. I thought it would be nice to reply and thank a user that posted a link about us. We have no affiliation with Marvin85 whatsoever. I can promise you we would never set up something like this on HN - we respect this community and have been following it for a while. We also had planned to post a "Rate my startup" post when ready, but Marvin85 beat us to it. Sorry about all the fuss - I hope you will try vox.io yourself.
num1 16y ago
I stand corrected. Sorry for the argumentative tone of my comment and thank you for your polite responses.

by num1 16y ago

jan_g 16y ago

Well, it's like this. With invitations one receives 0.15€ of credit for every new registered user (similar to some other services, which reward you for bringing in new users). Marvin85 obviously tried to cash in by posting invite link. But I don't see anything terribly wrong with that. There are no hidden marketing techniques and I am not aware that Marvin85 is in any way connected to our team.

Marvin85 16y ago

Actually the account is this old since i created it 220 days ago, but only read hacker news, never did anything else. Today I learned about vox.io from multiple sources and saw the possibility of getting 0.15€ per referral. I did not yet see a link to vox.io on hacker news so I decided it was worth I try. And with that I made 18€ in referrals. I am not ashamed of this, since I only exploited the given oportunity. I am not involved with the vox.io team and any other user can get 0.15€ per referral. If anybody wants to contact me.. I am also known as TomyMMX on other sites and places. With this info you can get my real name and everything.

tomazstolfa 16y ago

Num1, we were a bit surprised by all the new traffic coming from HN on our Chartbeat dashboard and I followed the link here. I thought it would be nice to reply and thank a user that posted a link about us. We have no affiliation with Marvin85 whatsoever. I can promise you we would never set up something like this on HN - we respect this community and have been following it for a while. We also had planned to post a "Rate my startup" post when ready, but Marvin85 beat us to it. Sorry about all the fuss - I hope you will try vox.io yourself.

num1 16y ago

I stand corrected. Sorry for the argumentative tone of my comment and thank you for your polite responses.