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3 or 4 articles from/about Dan shipper and his product this week is starting become spam IMO. Maybe the problem with your product is that there's too much comp

3 or 4 articles from/about Dan shipper and his product this week is starting become spam IMO. Maybe the problem with your product is that there's too much competition at better price points. While there are probably many people that will try it out, and continue to use it or even possibly in conjunction with his services, I'm getting a bad impression of Dshipper and his product for over spamming the community. Also your market is hard, because of services like dribbler and forrst designers may look to these communities first for feedback and as a programmer I've already created a script for my personal usage and imagine others have too. Look for other ways to spread the word of your service. other sites doing very similar things pickfu.com usertesting.com feedbackarmy.com

dshipper 15y ago
Hey angryasian thanks for the feedback. Just to be clear, I didn't ask for this post to be written, or submitted to HN. But I'm really sorry you feel that way. It's honestly not my intention to spam the community. Every article that I've posted has been to share my experiences with the people on here and to get their thoughts/criticism about what I'm doing. I'm not an evil spammer from a country you can't pronounce. I'm a UPenn student who knows how to program and is trying to make it at startups. The beauty of Hacker News is that it's very hard to get anywhere if you aren't contributing anything valuable. The greatest part is that if I've stopped providing that with my posts they will never make the front page because people will recognize that and not upvote them. I would love to talk to you more about the competition in the market, your thoughts on Hacker News and anything else you want to talk about. My Skype is dshipper and my email address is dan@danshipper.com. My Google Voice number is (213)-784-0273. Get in touch any time :)
- angryasian 15y ago
  lets not be naive here, we all know you have your own upenn network or PSL up voting your stories to a point where they get noticed. Many other startups have came through here doing the same thing. Again I'm not against startups or helping people, I am against people spamming the community.
jarrettcoggin 15y ago
Note: I am NOT Dan Shipper. You are entirely correct. Dan's product does have competition, and maybe the other products do have better price points. We have talked about these other offerings before our lunch discussion. Other people have mentioned this point to Dan already. However, this post was not about Dan's product specifically, but it was about what I learned from him while he and I were talking over lunch. I did reference what Dan was doing a lot in the post, I will agree, but you could apply these ideas to pretty much any project a person works on.
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dshipper 15y ago

Hey angryasian thanks for the feedback. Just to be clear, I didn't ask for this post to be written, or submitted to HN. But I'm really sorry you feel that way. It's honestly not my intention to spam the community. Every article that I've posted has been to share my experiences with the people on here and to get their thoughts/criticism about what I'm doing. I'm not an evil spammer from a country you can't pronounce. I'm a UPenn student who knows how to program and is trying to make it at startups. The beauty of Hacker News is that it's very hard to get anywhere if you aren't contributing anything valuable. The greatest part is that if I've stopped providing that with my posts they will never make the front page because people will recognize that and not upvote them. I would love to talk to you more about the competition in the market, your thoughts on Hacker News and anything else you want to talk about. My Skype is dshipper and my email address is dan@danshipper.com. My Google Voice number is (213)-784-0273. Get in touch any time :)

angryasian 15y ago
lets not be naive here, we all know you have your own upenn network or PSL up voting your stories to a point where they get noticed. Many other startups have came through here doing the same thing. Again I'm not against startups or helping people, I am against people spamming the community.

jarrettcoggin 15y ago

Note: I am NOT Dan Shipper. You are entirely correct. Dan's product does have competition, and maybe the other products do have better price points. We have talked about these other offerings before our lunch discussion. Other people have mentioned this point to Dan already. However, this post was not about Dan's product specifically, but it was about what I learned from him while he and I were talking over lunch. I did reference what Dan was doing a lot in the post, I will agree, but you could apply these ideas to pretty much any project a person works on.

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