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Is Hacker News turning into Product Hunt for YC, and is YC turning into a CPG incubator? If this weren’t a YC company, it would be flagged and voted off the sit

by numair 4y ago

Is Hacker News turning into Product Hunt for YC, and is YC turning into a CPG incubator? If this weren’t a YC company, it would be flagged and voted off the site in an instant. If this is the future of HN, there’s going to be a market opening for a replacement!

cercatrova 4y ago
Future? This has been an implicit feature of HN for years. It is in no way new. That is in fact one of the perks of YC, being able to post a Launch HN.
- soared 4y ago
  Op is discussing the lack of tech/innovation/etc from this start up.
  - yaseer 4y ago
    HN is about geeks gratifying our intellectual curiosity- There's some interesting topics brought up by this post. Science of skincare, underserved markets, sociological phenomena. But all that aside, plenty of geeks with darker skin found it interesting enough to click, myself included.
dang 4y ago
Launch HNs are curated threads that we help YC startups write, and then place on the front page. This is one of three formal things (the other two are job ads and orange usernames for alumni) that HN gives back to YC in exchange for funding it. This is in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html, which is linked at the bottom of every page. There are also lots of past explanations here: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=by%3Adang%20%22launch%20hns%22&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu.... We started doing Launch HNs in early 2017. You can see the complete list here: https://news.ycombinator.com/launches https://news.ycombinator.com/launches. The advice we give to YC startups about launching on HN is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/yli.html https://news.ycombinator.com/yli.html. The logistical parts only apply to YC cos, but the communication advice applies to everyone. You're certainly right that not all these startups would make the front page through upvotes only, but we do work hard to write them up in a way that we hope will genuinely interest the community, and many of them end up getting a lot of upvotes and staying on the front page a long time.

by numair 4y ago

cercatrova 4y ago

Future? This has been an implicit feature of HN for years. It is in no way new. That is in fact one of the perks of YC, being able to post a Launch HN.

soared 4y ago
Op is discussing the lack of tech/innovation/etc from this start up.
- yaseer 4y ago
  HN is about geeks gratifying our intellectual curiosity- There's some interesting topics brought up by this post. Science of skincare, underserved markets, sociological phenomena. But all that aside, plenty of geeks with darker skin found it interesting enough to click, myself included.

dang 4y ago

Launch HNs are curated threads that we help YC startups write, and then place on the front page. This is one of three formal things (the other two are job ads and orange usernames for alumni) that HN gives back to YC in exchange for funding it. This is in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html, which is linked at the bottom of every page. There are also lots of past explanations here: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=by%3Adang%20%22launch%20hns%22&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu.... We started doing Launch HNs in early 2017. You can see the complete list here: https://news.ycombinator.com/launches https://news.ycombinator.com/launches. The advice we give to YC startups about launching on HN is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/yli.html https://news.ycombinator.com/yli.html. The logistical parts only apply to YC cos, but the communication advice applies to everyone. You're certainly right that not all these startups would make the front page through upvotes only, but we do work hard to write them up in a way that we hope will genuinely interest the community, and many of them end up getting a lot of upvotes and staying on the front page a long time.