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It is a norm here and a common courtesy to let people know whenever one mentions their own company, product, or project. Otherwise, we don’t know that a commen
by khazhoux 3y ago
It is a norm here and a common courtesy to let people know whenever one mentions their own company, product, or project. Otherwise, we don’t know that a comment might be self-marketing.
And yes, yours was an instance of self-marketing, even if unintentional, by name-dropping your company alongside power players like Meta and Tesla. You put yourself on people’s radar as a GPU-intensive company.
- latchkey 3y agoThe guidelines state: "Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff part of the time, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity." What I posted, just the name of my company, was entirely within the bounds of common courtesy. Of course, I do want to put myself on people's radar... I am building a GPU-intensive company and I'm making a small relevant comment on a thread. I looked it up. Over the years, there has been endless bike shed discussion on this topic, such as: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24353959 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24353959 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36404027 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36404027 I think that it is smart of the moderators here to simply sit on the sidelines and not try to control the discussion of this too much.