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I don't think people get upset when they self promote on Hacker News. There is a very fine line between self promotion and spam. I've said it in other threads
by pclark 18y ago
I don't think people get upset when they self promote on Hacker News.
There is a very fine line between self promotion and spam. I've said it in other threads - I can't think of anything cooler than the "review my app" posts here, and love it when people email/twitter me cool stuff.
- amichail 18y agoPeople should not be accused of spam no matter what. That's why things need to change.
- pclark 18y agoerm, so if I started ending all my comments with my website -- you wouldn't consider that spam?
- simonk 18y agoNo, you have to be nice to your customers and if your promoting it to us then that's what your looking for. Freshbooks just did a blog post ( http://www.freshbooks.com/blog/2009/01/28/techcrunch-is-not-a-marketing-plan/ http://www.freshbooks.com/blog/2009/01/28/techcrunch-is-not-... ) "You need to be out in the world, going after your own customers, treating them well, earning their admiration and recommendations, and continuing to build your business for the future." If you can't take enough of your time to figure out how to write a self-promotion post here than why would we think your going to care about us if we become an actual customer. Almost everybody here does a self-promotional post but they do it with care, stay active and the thread and make people that go check out the site and comment feel like they've helped.