Comment by hluska
1 year ago
What disrespectful marketing. We don’t care that you use Merkle trees because that’s irrelevant. I guess I can add Fireproof to my big list of sketchy products to avoid. It’s embarrassing.
1 year ago
What disrespectful marketing. We don’t care that you use Merkle trees because that’s irrelevant. I guess I can add Fireproof to my big list of sketchy products to avoid. It’s embarrassing.
I figured the responses would be more interesting. Questions about CRDT guarantees etc.
Perhaps worth seeding the convo with a remark about finality.
While your intentions may have been around discussion, I don’t want to be marketed to when I’m trying to understand something unrelated. I have a business degree so I intimately understand that HN is technically free and it’s nice to get free eyeballs, but we are people too. I’m so much more than a credit card number, yet you’ve reduced me to a user acquisition in the most insulting way possible.
Perhaps instead of your ideas, it’s worth seeding your own personal make up with a firm statement of ethics??
Are you the kind of person who will hijack conversations to promote your product? Or do you have integrity?
Just purely out of concern for your business, do you have a cofounder who could handle marketing for you? If so, consider letting her have complete control over that function. It’s genuinely sad to see a founder squander goodwill on shitty marketing.
In founder mode, I pretty much only think about these data structures. So I am (admittedly) not that sensitive to how it comes across.
Spam would be raising the topic on unrelated posts. This is a context where I can find people who get it. The biggest single thing we need now is critical feedback on the tech from folks who understand the area. You’re right I probably should have raised the questions about mergability and finality without referencing other discussions.
Because I don’t want to spam, I didn’t link externally, just to conversation on HN. As a reader I often follow links like this because I’m here to learn about new projects and where the people who make them think they’ll be useful.
ps I emailed the address in your profile, I have a feeling you are right about something here and I want to explore.
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