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Comment by nusl

5 months ago

You're promoting your own website based on AI-generated things on a Hacker News post aimed at generating AI slop.

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mittermayr  5 months ago

I've received nothing but nice messages about the site after posting it and people seem to be getting a kick out of it. I feel like this (if barely so) meets the bar to give it a pass perhaps, especially considering that my voice is worth as much as yours and the next person, so without upvotes, it will disappear, just how it's meant to be. Hope that helps a bit.

  • nusl  5 months ago

    I mentioned it because you didn't disclose that you're responsible for it. If you had mentioned you're the owner, sure. Though it comes across as a disingenuous recommendation when folk put stock in such things being in good faith.

    Also, the product type you promoted is something that I've seen replicated many times, more often very badly. Mentioning such a product on an article aimed at AI slop seemed somewhat ironic.

    • mittermayr  5 months ago

      I'll take away the note to mention my involvement when posting a comment, there's no harm in doing that and if it helps someone I'm happy to try and do that.

mouse_  5 months ago

good for him i hope he makes it

  • fennecbutt  5 months ago

    Where do we draw the line at self promotion (advertising) then?

    • nine_k  5 months ago

      If anything, this was a very short and quite contextual piece of text-only advertising. If all online advertising were like that, I won't have to run an ad blocker.

    • vntok  5 months ago

      No need to do that. The provenance does not matter as long as the content is interesting, which is the case here.

      This is the original hacker's ethos: put something out there for others to use, and let the people make their own opinion about the thing itself, not the authoritativeness of its source.

    • collingreen  5 months ago

      For me, undisclosed self promotion puts a very bad taste in my mouth, to the point of coming off as bad faith. I dislike pretending you're just mentioning a cool service since you're effectively trying to trick me with false social proof.

      If the post had said "I made xyz which could auto generate domains for these ideas using ai to fully close the slop gap" I wouldn't mind and might even appreciate the additional fun.