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The amount of startup-culture Kool Aid going on here is quite mesmerising. First the product, 'let's aggregate the aggregators!!!' The monetization: those aff

The amount of startup-culture Kool Aid going on here is quite mesmerising. First the product, 'let's aggregate the aggregators!!!' The monetization: those affiliate marketing codes everyone else uses!!! Then there is the user acquisition strategy. Getting some intern to post stuff to Twitter for you. The spin off product: a Twitter spamming machine! Then there is 'sharing economy'. Is this really all it amounts to?

untog 13y ago
Hacker News is so much more honest at this time of day, before Silicon Valley wakes up. It'll never last, they're going to disrupt us any second now.
- dang 13y ago
  I'm not sure what you find honest about this behavior, but you're right that it isn't welcome on Hacker News.