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> GitGardener is at $151 MRR. TIL people are willing to pay for fake GitHub activity.
by jrrrr 6y ago
> GitGardener is at $151 MRR.
TIL people are willing to pay for fake GitHub activity.
- thisisbrians 6y agoAnd Cyberleads sells emails lists (see my other comment). I don't think we should be condoning this guy's behavior..
- lostcolony 6y agoWhy not if employers look for it?
- kevsim 6y agoBecause it's not particularly ethical? Doesn't seem less deceptive than lying on a CV to me.
- sckn 6y agoOf course, but it looks like a so politic. In modern world we have a "fake" life. We already happy on the internet. I didn't see sad post on social media.
- p2detar 6y agoBut is it what the market wants, though? If customers are paying, then I think the answer is obvious.
- sundbry 6y agoyou can also buy stolen credit card numbers on the darknet, the customers are paying.
- p2detar 6y agoBut I don’t need it. If I really needed it, maybe I would buy it.
- sfkdjf9j3j 6y agoSorry, are you saying that it's a good thing to sell stolen credit cards because there is a market for them?
- p2detar 6y agoGood? Is it a good thing to sell caffeine-laden energy drinks to kids & teenagers? Good and bad aren’t the steering properties of the market. Demand is. Demand can also be artificially created, hence the github commits that potential employers are interested in seeing.
- andrewzah 6y agoIs forcing people to contribute on github ethical? Aside from only looking at one social coding platform vs [gitlab/azure/sourcehut/self-hosted], it takes the viewpoint that one writes and publishes code on github -on top of- their day job. Since not all companies put their private code on github. What if I have a family? What if I have -any- other hobbies than just programming all day? What if I have other obligations or just want to -relax- after work? I wouldn't pay for a service like this (I would write a simple script, can't be that hard), but I don't find it unethical either. You want to be lazy and just look at some numbers? Here are your numbers. I'd be willing to bet that it never comes up again once hired. Actually, I just wouldn't apply to a company that places that much weight on github contribution history. But if I had zero industry experience and was just trying to get any job, the situation might be different.
- ineedasername 6y agoBecause the employer is looking for a signal of quality. This manufactures the signal without the quality. The fact that the signal is a flawed proxy for quality to begin with doesn't change that using this product is deliberately deceptive.
- blobbers 6y agoAt first I tried to misunderstand the GitGardener website. But no, I think this is what it is. Wow.