I thought the earlier feedback from HN was especially critical and cynical. I'm curious to know how much of the update to the offer came from the feedback here vis-à-vis the applicants themselves.
HN is a wonderful fuzzer on optimism, so I'm sure it'll find some negative angle here as well. HN caused us to think about it, but we made the decision after talking to applicants. Most didn't seem to mind. A few did. We figured it was worth another revision. We're a startup, too. Launch. Talk to users. Iterate. Etc. Etc.