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Fly.io is involved with YCombinator at https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/fly-io https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/fly-io. One of the core contributors o

by nickjj 3y ago

Fly.io is involved with YCombinator at https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/fly-io https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/fly-io. One of the core contributors of Phoenix also works there and Fly.io tends to tie in with Elixir as a language. I'm just speculating here but I think a number of posts are curated to land on the home page when you're directly or indirectly related to YCombinator funded companies.

sph 3y ago
I'm pretty sure time and time again dang has confirmed they don't promote any post coming from a YC-affiliated company, and in case of Elixir, its just one dev at one YC company. A tenuous connection. I explained what is probably going on in a sibling comment. Less of a conspiracy, and more about a handful of people seeing the hyped language du jour in the title and upvoting it in a matter of minutes.
- brandall10 3y ago
  "just one dev" Chris McCord is the creator of Phoenix and this is a post about Phoenix functionality. What you say is likely correct but that's a strong tie.
- ecmascript 3y ago
  > I'm pretty sure time and time again dang has confirmed they don't promote any post coming from a YC-affiliated company Probably the right thing to do ethically if you want to run a forum but at the same time it would be bad business. I'm not saying that this occurred here and I don't really care either but I wouldn't exactly trust a company on their word on something they can benefit financially from.
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