It's weird that HN is now a thing to be gamed (in this case, poorly). I remember when this was just a forum for people to post links and talk about stuff, and wasn't nearly influential enough to be worth astroturfing and manipulating.
It's not just this post either - I've seen first-hand other startups try to manipulate HN. It can be as mild as getting your colleagues to upvote a story, and it can be pretty loathsome like astroturfed comments.
Re: the list though, I see a lot of FNACs here (Feature, Not A Company). I love a useful product as much as the next person, but are products that have no visible revenue potential really startups?
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I propose an experiment to return to this page at various points in the future and comment on the status of these startups/websites.
I realise that I may be adding to the background noise, but this is ridiculous: http://imgur.com/F7wkO
It's weird that HN is now a thing to be gamed (in this case, poorly). I remember when this was just a forum for people to post links and talk about stuff, and wasn't nearly influential enough to be worth astroturfing and manipulating.
It's not just this post either - I've seen first-hand other startups try to manipulate HN. It can be as mild as getting your colleagues to upvote a story, and it can be pretty loathsome like astroturfed comments.
Re: the list though, I see a lot of FNACs here (Feature, Not A Company). I love a useful product as much as the next person, but are products that have no visible revenue potential really startups?