Comment by lucb1e
1 day ago
> a clone of HN I've been working on that adds subscriptions and ad slot bidding
Wut, what's the purpose of that? Is this just a toy learning project? Would it be to make money off of people who don't know that an ad-free version of HN exists at news.ycombinator.com? Will you try to sell it to Ycombinator?
I am hoping they are developing it as a satirical art project, otherwise... yikes; needing a credit card and an ad blocker to use HN would be very depressing and is counter to everything I enjoy about this forum.
A "clone" usually doesn't mean that they'll copy the content, but the idea, like Ola is a clone of Uber.
(Though they probably should've said a link aggregator instead of HN clone.)