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Ask HN: Unreleased Products
In the past few months, especially with AI, there have been a lot of posts "[company] releases [product]", where a company has not in fact released a product—they're just testing it with their friends in closed alpha/beta; you click through and it's just an email signup waitlist to be notified when the product is ready.
Is there some kind of flag or tag for these? How can I distinguish real releases from "we're in testing"/"we will release soon" announcements?
Can we start tagging these?
- XCSme 3y agoIs it Vaporware[0] stuff? [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaporware https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaporware
- mtmail 3y agoThey're not allowed as Show HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html) but it's not always clear-cut. If the product has a video walk-through for example it's more real than just a page full of text (promises).
- version_five 3y ago> They're just testing it with their friends in closed alpha/beta; That's being generous. I know I've read "startup advice" to make a landing page with your idea and get signups, and then build it only if it gets some interest. I don't think that's good advice for fields that evolve daily anyway, by the time you gauge interest, the world will have moved on or someone else will have built the product.