If you ask the HN crowd, effectively all growth hacks will be considered spam/inappropriate. Case in point: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8455138 https

If you ask the HN crowd, effectively all growth hacks will be considered spam/inappropriate. Case in point: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8455138 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8455138 In general, tech people believe that any message of any kind that may result in revenue, clicks, or new users for the sender is spam. I think real users consider unsolicited messages that don't deliver value to them to be spam, and welcome things that do deliver some value to them.