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More and more blog posts that make it to the HN front page are content marketing. Nothing nefarious about it -- it's just a deliberate strategy on the part of
by drewda 2y ago
More and more blog posts that make it to the HN front page are content marketing.
Nothing nefarious about it -- it's just a deliberate strategy on the part of companies like Retool or Supabase or Fly or whatever to market their services to this target market.
I have no idea how many actual sales conversations it leads to, but it sure is effective at convincing many HN readers that those are cool companies selling cool things...
- cryptonector 2y agoIn this case TFA was lame and a waste of time. Advertising by posting blogs on HN is fine, but the blogs had better be interesting.
- nh23423fefe 2y agoYou imagine communication exists to serve you. You are wrong. You should spend time examining the author instead of just blinding vacuuming "content"