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> I find your warning a bit unfair as there are literally no CTA inside the blog content promoting our product It’s obviously blog content designed to promote
by PragmaticPulp 5y ago
> I find your warning a bit unfair as there are literally no CTA inside the blog content promoting our product
It’s obviously blog content designed to promote your product, hosted on the company’s product website. I don’t see how the FYI is unfair.
I added it because the content was valuable but HN can be finicky about blog posts from companies advertising their own products. Trying to get ahead of indignant dismissals.
- halpert 5y agoWhere do they promote the product? It looks like they’re using a random http library.
- dewey 5y ago> It’s obviously blog content designed to promote your product, hosted on the company’s product website. I don’t see how the FYI is unfair. There's so many blog posts posted here that could fall under "content marketing" umbrella if you want to be strict. I feel like there's no problem with that if the content is valuable and people like/upvote it. After all this is a platform that is doing marketing for YC where YC companies are supposed to post their content too. That "warning" also stuck out to me as a bit unfair as I was even looking for how it hooks into ScrapingBee (as I was curious how these scraping-aaS platforms interface with custom code) and couldn't find anything.
- 1123581321 5y agoYours ended up coming across as the indignant dismissal. As a community member I didn’t appreciate the warning. From the second paragraph on your comment was an interesting contribution, though. I’m surprised that many of those PoC businesses have stayed online at all, but I guess romaine are easy to renew.
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