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The testimonials are fake, as far as I can tell¹. I became immediately suspicious when I saw star ratings and @ usernames for Reddit users with no links. So I
by latexr 2y ago
The testimonials are fake, as far as I can tell¹.
I became immediately suspicious when I saw star ratings and @ usernames for Reddit users with no links. So I searched.
Two of the Reddit users don’t exist at all:
https://www.reddit.com/user/Udupi_S/ https://www.reddit.com/user/Udupi_S/
https://www.reddit.com/user/ching_c2/ https://www.reddit.com/user/ching_c2/
The third only posted once, 8 years ago²:
https://www.reddit.com/user/startup_founder/ https://www.reddit.com/user/startup_founder/
The fourth one did comment about this, though of course there are no stars:
https://www.reddit.com/r/SideProject/comments/1hs9jem/comment/m545ugg/ https://www.reddit.com/r/SideProject/comments/1hs9jem/commen...
Same thing with the HN (I assume, from the icon) testimonials. One user doesn’t exist:
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=techie42 https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=techie42
The other hasn’t posted in 12 years:
https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=devhacker https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=devhacker
This frankly looks like you asked an LLM to create “real-looking” testimonials for an app and decided to fake your way in. Not the first time I see these shenanigans.
¹ https://i.imgur.com/UAASkDR.png https://i.imgur.com/UAASkDR.png
² It was not about this app, but do read the post. It’s a hilariously dumb idea.
- netsharc 2y agoOP also mistakenly commented from his main account: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42910261 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42910261 For posterity's sake: his main account is: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jaynpatel https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jaynpatel , interestingly the submissions page is full of dead Show HN's of all the things he's "made".