TL;DR: angersock seems jaded, he expected a blog post and got an MVP plug / blatant marketing post.
Honestly, I think it's a reaction to "Minimum Viable Product" overkill on HN.
The first 10 times it's OK. The next 50 times it gets less interesting. Once you're into three figures it really starts to grate. So you start to the MVP style posts. Which means those making MVP posts have to turn to a different strategy: the "interesting headline" blog post, to drive traffic to their site.
Oh, and I think that the older people here (and at 31 I'm probably one of them) are turned off by really blatant marketing..
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TL;DR: angersock seems jaded, he expected a blog post and got an MVP plug / blatant marketing post.
Honestly, I think it's a reaction to "Minimum Viable Product" overkill on HN.
The first 10 times it's OK. The next 50 times it gets less interesting. Once you're into three figures it really starts to grate. So you start to the MVP style posts. Which means those making MVP posts have to turn to a different strategy: the "interesting headline" blog post, to drive traffic to their site.
Oh, and I think that the older people here (and at 31 I'm probably one of them) are turned off by really blatant marketing..