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Comment by CallMeMarc

11 hours ago

Is this your service? Since you've made seven posts to HN about it and also your username shows up in the commits on their GitHub.

Because I'm quite curious on where the IPs are from. Usually residential IPs is a fancy wording for malware infested devices from regular people.

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notpushkin  10 hours ago

> Is this your service? Since you've made seven posts to HN about it and also your username shows up in the commits on their GitHub.

Ohh, that makes sense haha.

@m00dy: please disclose when you’re talking about your own projects! It’s okay to plug your stuff sometimes, just be honest about it :-)

  • m00dy  9 hours ago

    I’m not hiding anything :-)

    • notpushkin  7 hours ago

      No, but you weren’t upfront about it either. I’ve suspected it looked like your own project but checked your comments in the profile and didn’t see any other, so I didn’t dig any deeper.

      > I’m not here to promote anything just wanted to share a valid use case in the right context.

      There’s a small difference: if one of your users did this it would be totally fair, but when a founder does this I think it’s a polite thing to disclose it. That’s what I’ve been doing when talking about my own project on HN [1], and I think in most cases other legit founders just say that upfront, too. I’m not sure if that breaks any rules, but it feels juuuuust a bit shady not to :-)

      [1]: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...