[petesoder]

Yes, it's true - we have a community built around our product, and oftentimes communities want to help/support each other. So I let our users know that we were on HN since it's an opportunity for them to make the platform stronger by adding many more awesome engineers to get matched to.

[dang]

Asking people to upvote posts is called a voting ring and is against the rules on HN. We penalize or ban accounts (and sites) that do this, so please don't.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html