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I don't think anyone has figured it out yet, because if you aren't paying for news, then you are the product and not the consumer, and yet most news is still fr

• azangru 6y ago
  Ok, I am not paying for reading the news feed on HackerNews. I suppose you aren't paying either. Are both of us HackerNews' products?
  • nix23 6y ago
    >Are both of us HackerNews' products? At least the product supporter ;)
  • bigiain 6y ago
    Have you stopped to think what YCombinator is getting out of paying the bills to keen this site running?
    • GlennS 6y ago
      Is it costly for them? I assumed they thought it was good, cheap PR.
  • r0m4n0 6y ago
    Actually I think hacker news is the Google in this scenario. They are profiting off aggregating the content of other news outlets. I’m not sure it’s right/wrong or how it’s going to work but if Australia says you make money off aggregating their news you must pay some legislated amount, I’m not sure I agree with the precedent of that
  • dexen 6y ago
    >Are both of us HackerNews' products? Yes. We the users of HN are product - both individually, and also as a market segment, and also as a smart[0] crowd. From [1], Y Combinator provides seed funding for startups. To Y Combinator, the HN is both entry to the sales (investment) funnel, and a PR machine. And also early opinion & commentary, early beta-testing, load testing [2], and more. That is not to detract from the (very probable) angle of pg & team wishing to render a public service for the public good :-) -- [0] the occasional bad thread notwithstanding ;-) [1] https://www.ycombinator.com/about/#whatwedo https://www.ycombinator.com/about/#whatwedo [2] aka HN hug of death