Comment by kristopolous
21 days ago
There's so many suggestions here that you open up and it's just a buy screen with comment reviews like "oh dearest me, I was lost in the darkness and then I found salvation with this app"
I can't help but think there's a lot of devs here pushing their own products.
At this point I just assume any recommendation on here that isn't for FOSS is a shill/bot.
I mean this _is_ HN after all. That is the core mindset that is being pushed here. Y Combinator is a startup accelerator.
It is just called "hacker" news because it's a nice sounding name. Not because it would actually be news for hackers nor because it would actually be culturally adjacent to hacker culture.
Though, those aforementioned hackers still do seem to occasionally hang out here regardless. Probably some weird case of masochism.
> Probably some weird case of masochism.
Or keeping an eye on the opposition.
I guess. This is ostensibly savvy users that will bounce at some confusing pay screen when you open the app and immediately uninstall