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I don’t think it was a hack, rather it was a real test. The dev mentions it in this tweet https://twitter.com/levelsio/status/1377687358095654914?s=20 https://t
by mrks_ 5y ago
I don’t think it was a hack, rather it was a real test. The dev mentions it in this tweet https://twitter.com/levelsio/status/1377687358095654914?s=20 https://twitter.com/levelsio/status/1377687358095654914?s=20
- duxup 5y agoI can't imagine who thought it was a good idea to have their product offer something to customers ... and then pull a "lol nope not a real thing!" on customers who wanted the thing.
- nowherebeen 5y agoThey probably justified it as some sort of product validation? Its like a huge thing with the community at indie hackers to use a landing page to validate market demand.
- dyingkneepad 5y agoCan't someone just sue them so they actually have to deliver the content they were pretending to sell? I mean, this looks very shady if done by them.
- ThePhysicist 5y agoSeems like a really weird way to test stuff. But the Internet is an ocean, so I guess it doesn't matter if you anger some fish.
- TechBro8615 5y agoI might even go so far as to suggest that the OP was aware of this and is simply trying to start a flame war about the practice of building fake checkout pages. I think The Lean Startup was the first to popularize this idea, maybe? It’s nothing new, although I’ve always found it a bit weird/distasteful. I’m surprised he’s okay with doing it on his established brand where there is actually something to lose (vs spinning up a totally new site with no existing brand capital).