> Is his app really the best option in that product space? Does it have to be the best? Is the best for you? or for the consumer segment he targeted? Who's jud

> Is his app really the best option in that product space? Does it have to be the best? Is the best for you? or for the consumer segment he targeted? Who's judging? > I think it's unethical. It's very similar to all of the paid content garbage that's saturated Google over the last few years. Do you prefer cold-call? Door-too-door salesman? One of your subscriber emails slip it in? > Nothing gets published without some marketing related alterior motive. Why is this ruining the internet? 99% of the content is about the SaaS he used to run his businesses and one of them happened to be "X" that he mentioned down the list. He disclose it and he's nothing more than dog-fooding his own stuff. This is MILESSSS better than anything else out there. By your litmus-test, YCombinator (and hackernews) have some marketing related ulterior motives as well.