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That sums up what Hacker News exactly is A community used to drive interest in marketing ops/acquisition/IPOs up People at HN know that very well, in fact, ve
by Shadonototra 5y ago
That sums up what Hacker News exactly is
A community used to drive interest in marketing ops/acquisition/IPOs up
People at HN know that very well, in fact, very often, the companies that get to front page are somewhat related to HN, very often they are investors ;)
- dang 5y agoThat's not what Hacker News is. If it were, it wouldn't be interesting. If it weren't interesting, it wouldn't have a valuable community. If it didn't have a valuable community, people wouldn't be using it to try to get attention for their companies in the first place. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html