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You make a lot of wrong assumptions, sorry... I do not think you or anyone here is dumb. There is nothing "thinly veiled" either: it is both promotion (there is

You make a lot of wrong assumptions, sorry... I do not think you or anyone here is dumb. There is nothing "thinly veiled" either: it is both promotion (there is "discount" in the main text) AND a thank you. That said I do think that there is an increasing level of negativity here and I do feel sad about it. I miss the old HN, full of Show HN.

karolist 13y ago
Guess people got tired from all these now-i'm-here-now-i'm-closed little SaaS CRUD projects that everyone and their grandmother is building using same tech. And people hate promotions that are not said to be promotions openly, but wrapped into a thin transparent cloth. IMO you'd be more welcome if you made 2 separate posts, one to thank, one to show the project, but maybe don't mention any discounts for HN in the post in an attempt to incentivize checking of your site.
- thibaut_barrere 13y ago
  Thanks for the attempt to help :-) I did more or less what you advised, I think... - a "show HN" 50 days ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5928066); https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5928066); which quickly went off the radar under all the Snowden/NSA stories - note that previously, I got a lot of interest from HN: one of my users posted the site 300 days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4659092 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4659092 (without me asking, with a very beta page) and I got great feedback out of it - finally, the thank you coupon (current post) So I'm not sure what is the right lesson to get out of this. I do not feel very happy of the comment by bjourne, for sure! Nevertheless I'm happy that I did post here, because some people enjoyed the coupon. To address your first sentence: I am not closing WiseCash anytime soon, far from it. We're using it for our own needs since Jan 2012, opened to private beta in Jun 2012, and opened to everyone in Jul 2013, and it is growing nicely (and bootstrapped 100%).
  - bjourne 13y ago
    karolist got it right. Had you made two posts I wouldn't have complained and probably upvoted both. You hoped people would feel grateful to HN, and upvote your combined thank hn/show my product-post just as the last "thank you hn" post reached about ~150 points and would have driven thousands of leads for you. That's insincere and you deserved to be called out for it.

karolist 13y ago

Guess people got tired from all these now-i'm-here-now-i'm-closed little SaaS CRUD projects that everyone and their grandmother is building using same tech. And people hate promotions that are not said to be promotions openly, but wrapped into a thin transparent cloth. IMO you'd be more welcome if you made 2 separate posts, one to thank, one to show the project, but maybe don't mention any discounts for HN in the post in an attempt to incentivize checking of your site.

thibaut_barrere 13y ago
Thanks for the attempt to help :-) I did more or less what you advised, I think... - a "show HN" 50 days ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5928066); https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5928066); which quickly went off the radar under all the Snowden/NSA stories - note that previously, I got a lot of interest from HN: one of my users posted the site 300 days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4659092 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4659092 (without me asking, with a very beta page) and I got great feedback out of it - finally, the thank you coupon (current post) So I'm not sure what is the right lesson to get out of this. I do not feel very happy of the comment by bjourne, for sure! Nevertheless I'm happy that I did post here, because some people enjoyed the coupon. To address your first sentence: I am not closing WiseCash anytime soon, far from it. We're using it for our own needs since Jan 2012, opened to private beta in Jun 2012, and opened to everyone in Jul 2013, and it is growing nicely (and bootstrapped 100%).
- bjourne 13y ago
  karolist got it right. Had you made two posts I wouldn't have complained and probably upvoted both. You hoped people would feel grateful to HN, and upvote your combined thank hn/show my product-post just as the last "thank you hn" post reached about ~150 points and would have driven thousands of leads for you. That's insincere and you deserved to be called out for it.