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>Hi Marak, this is interesting! Give me a day to work on this; I will reach back out soon! You promised this last time. Why is a post on Hacker News any differ

>Hi Marak, this is interesting! Give me a day to work on this; I will reach back out soon! You promised this last time. Why is a post on Hacker News any different than a private email?

notwhereyouare 5y ago
Because now it’s public he failed to respond
Axsuul 5y ago
C'mon, give the guy a break - people get busy.
- watwut 5y ago
  Is there even any duty to respond to unsolicited sales pitches? I would assume it is fine to ignore those.
  - Axsuul 5y ago
    Not at all since no one owes "you" anything. It's "your" duty to pursue it (e.g. endless follow ups, get connected through others)
paxys 5y ago
The email he ignored was a random sales pitch. Nowhere did the author mention his actual problem.
dvdhsu 5y ago
When Marak sent me the email, I read it as a "Hi, I built Faker, might you be interested in acquiring it?". I responded with a "yes, that could be interesting, give me a day to work on this". In the end, we decided that acquiring Faker didn't make sense, and I'm sorry to Marak for not sending a follow-up email telling him we weren't interested. In this case, the content is different (i.e. we are potentially abusing OSS), which is why I’m responding to this. (FWIW, I typically receive 50 - 100 sales emails every day. I do try and reply to the ones that look interesting, but I do forget to follow-up sometimes if we're not interested! This does not excuse my behavior in this particular case, and I’m sorry to Marak for not following up.)
- tiltrus 5y ago
  This really doesn't sound convincing at all.
  - oh_sigh 5y ago
    For a counterpoint of equivalent value - I'm fairly convinced.
- bryan0 5y ago
  Uh, but he followed up with you a week later and you again decided not to reply.
  - austhrow743 5y ago
    Yes, people cold emailing you to sell you things often follow up.
    - bryan0 5y ago
      His explanation was that he “forgot” to reply. Just be honest then and say he put him on ignore after evaluating. > I do try and reply to the ones that look interesting, but I do forget to follow-up sometimes if we're not interested!
      - ClashTheBunny 5y ago
        Chances would be that I would recognize the sender and then immediately archive the email and not even read it...
- StavrosK 5y ago
  I wasn't convinced by this reply either, then I went back and read the actual email. It doesn't mention the problem at all, it's a straightforward sales pitch. Even I ignore tons of those regularly, it's kind of dishonest on the part of the developer to say "oh they caused me a problem, I emailed them and they didn't reply" without mentioning that he didn't mention the problem in the email at all!
betwixthewires 5y ago
He promised to look into the possibility of buying faker. The initial email said nothing about the gripes in this article. In fact, the author of the article did absolutely nothing to resolve this problem before writing the article itself.

>Hi Marak, this is interesting! Give me a day to work on this; I will reach back out soon! You promised this last time. Why is a post on Hacker News any different than a private email?

notwhereyouare 5y ago

Because now it’s public he failed to respond

Axsuul 5y ago

C'mon, give the guy a break - people get busy.

watwut 5y ago
Is there even any duty to respond to unsolicited sales pitches? I would assume it is fine to ignore those.
- Axsuul 5y ago
  Not at all since no one owes "you" anything. It's "your" duty to pursue it (e.g. endless follow ups, get connected through others)

paxys 5y ago

The email he ignored was a random sales pitch. Nowhere did the author mention his actual problem.

dvdhsu 5y ago

When Marak sent me the email, I read it as a "Hi, I built Faker, might you be interested in acquiring it?". I responded with a "yes, that could be interesting, give me a day to work on this". In the end, we decided that acquiring Faker didn't make sense, and I'm sorry to Marak for not sending a follow-up email telling him we weren't interested. In this case, the content is different (i.e. we are potentially abusing OSS), which is why I’m responding to this. (FWIW, I typically receive 50 - 100 sales emails every day. I do try and reply to the ones that look interesting, but I do forget to follow-up sometimes if we're not interested! This does not excuse my behavior in this particular case, and I’m sorry to Marak for not following up.)

tiltrus 5y ago
This really doesn't sound convincing at all.
- oh_sigh 5y ago
  For a counterpoint of equivalent value - I'm fairly convinced.
bryan0 5y ago
Uh, but he followed up with you a week later and you again decided not to reply.
- austhrow743 5y ago
  Yes, people cold emailing you to sell you things often follow up.
  - bryan0 5y ago
    His explanation was that he “forgot” to reply. Just be honest then and say he put him on ignore after evaluating. > I do try and reply to the ones that look interesting, but I do forget to follow-up sometimes if we're not interested!
    - ClashTheBunny 5y ago
      Chances would be that I would recognize the sender and then immediately archive the email and not even read it...
StavrosK 5y ago
I wasn't convinced by this reply either, then I went back and read the actual email. It doesn't mention the problem at all, it's a straightforward sales pitch. Even I ignore tons of those regularly, it's kind of dishonest on the part of the developer to say "oh they caused me a problem, I emailed them and they didn't reply" without mentioning that he didn't mention the problem in the email at all!

betwixthewires 5y ago

He promised to look into the possibility of buying faker. The initial email said nothing about the gripes in this article. In fact, the author of the article did absolutely nothing to resolve this problem before writing the article itself.