Comment by DidYaWipe
3 days ago
Wow, that whole thing was completely devoid of useful content. Does it even say what the product or service is?
"We’ve also added a few contractors to the team. And these guys are legends. They come straight from the ProjectionLab user community"
So... the product was obviously built, because it had a "user community;" so now they've added contractors? Whoop dee doo.
Is there some advice or playbook we're supposed to take away from this? Or is it self-congratulatory spam?
> Does it even say what the product or service is?
Do you really need spoon-feeding that directly?
The whole site is about the product. Much more information about it is literally a click-or-two away. Describing it specifically on that page, given how much information is already around it on directly linked pages, would seem superfluously wordy (even to me, someone who just used “superfluously” instead of “overly”).
> Or is it self-congratulatory spam?
Largely, yes. But no more than so people having anniversary parties are showing off, do you begrudge that sort of thing too?
I much prefer that to a self-aggrandising comment essentially stating “I'm better than them because I wouldn't post something like that” (yes, as some may be wondering, I am self-aware enough to acknowledge the strong touch of hypocrisy in that comment!).
"Spoon-feeding?" Saying WTF the product is isn't spoon-feeding. Expecting people to run around and do Web searches (or even roam around other pages at the domain) because posters are too lazy to add three descriptive words is douchey as hell, and way too often accepted (and even actively promoted) here.
"I much prefer that to a self-aggrandising comment essentially stating 'I'm better than them because I wouldn't post something like that'"
I don't see anyone saying that. What I said was, why waste our time with empty blather masquerading as a how-to?
> Expecting people to run around and do Web searches (or even roam around other pages at the domain)
One. Single. Click.
Two if you go via one of the menus not clicking the main logo.
> because posters are too lazy to add three descriptive words
As far as the writer is concerned, if you are looking at the blog you are already interested and know what you are looking at. Is it their fault that someone deep-ish linked without providing extra context for you?
> why waste our time with empty blather masquerading as a how-to?
You could have just moved on and read something else, accepting that not everything is written for everyone, and not wasted more time moaning about it…
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Why are you being such a stick-in-the-mud? It's an interesting and inspiration post on HN about a successfull bootstrapped indie startup. HN is primarily a startup & tech-driven community, so obviously we're all interested in stories like this. In fact, I miss the days where HN was almost solely startup post-mortems or success stories. How is the post even remotely self-congratulatory spam?
Because it doesn't provide insightful guidelines on how to avoid pitfalls or how to work around this or that impediment or, or, or.
Whatever, man. I guess we have different standards for what constitutes "informative."