[MaikuMori]

This company operated a spam compaign with emails harvested from GitHub or StackOverflow from what I can guess. Completely spoiled the first impressions.

This is not acceptable in 2018.

Not to mention the page was not accessible at that time due to load or whatever.

[scottydelta]

Exactly this, no matter how good the service is, If I am going to receive an email without my permission, I am going to mark it as spam and consider it as one. Just the other day people were complaining in a slack channel about receiving spam emails from TrapFi.

[asdsa5325]

That's a shame. Hopefully a company with better ethics will come and pick up their idea.

[trapfitech]

Hi Maiku - we genuinely apologize for sending a negative first impression to you. Our goal was to receive feedback from as many developers as possible. While we didn't harvest emails from GitHub or StackOverflow, these emails were cold and we now understand this is not the best way to ask for feedback.

[sametmax]

So you can design and implement a complex automated system implementing your own logic, a 3rd party API and a payment service.

But this, you didn't understand before doing so?

Do you get you are on HN, not facebook, and therefor people may doubt your sincerity on this point?

Just to save you a marketing shaped comment as a response, it's rhetorical.

[foreigner]

So where did you get the emails?

[fudged71]

That's just Growth Hacking, bro. /s