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What is the deal with all these anonymous startups that are popping up on HN all the time? Websites that completely conceal who made them. Posted by fresh HN a
by TekMol 4y ago
What is the deal with all these anonymous startups that are popping up on HN all the time?
Websites that completely conceal who made them. Posted by fresh HN accounts. Nobody on Twitter who tweeted "Hey, I build a new thing" or "I joined this startup" or whatever. And the "founders" being more or less unresponsive in the comments of their Show HNs. That doesn't make sense.
As far as I remember, none of them ever turned into a real business I heard from again.
Here is another one of this type which caught my eye a few days ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32622852 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32622852
- marban 4y agoHN is the new Producthunt — Show HNs should be banned.
- TekMol 4y agoNo. Show HNs are great. It's one of the main reasons I like HN. Many awesome companies did their first appearance as a Show HN. But those were by real people. There is a strange trend of anonymous websites that are supposed to be startups that confuses me.
- marban 4y agoWe need an entry barrier of some sort. Account age, Karma, whatever.
- dewey 4y ago> Show HNs should be banned No, some of them are the most interesting ones and a great way to directly talk to people building something. The solution is to just downvote / flag the spammy submissions that you don't think belong on HN.