[fookyong]

Hi everyone. Founder here. I'm flattered that this popped up on HN. I'm a long-time lurker and browse multiple times a day but seldom post.

For some context, you guys are looking at an MVP. It took me a month to build this. The marketing site was done in 2 hours (today, fuelled by coffee). I'm bootstrapping after leaving my corporate job last year.

Not trying to make excuses, but I think a lot of questions can simply be answered with "it's one month of work, by one dude, and it launched today" :)

It's live now. That's the easy part over with - the hard stuff begins now!

[bfdm]

Congrats!

Something I was looking for that you could work towards adding is a demo video showing how this might be used / what the experience looks like. I know I can sign up for free to try, but I don't even know what I'm signing up for.

[huhtenberg]

> I'm flattered that this popped up on HN.

Erm. Who is "middle1" then and why did they post this as "Show HN"?

[wtfrmyinitials]

I’m gonna invoke Hanlon’s Razor[1] here and assume middle1 is a random HN user that didn’t realize you only use “Show HN” when it’s your own project.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon's_razor

[tamasnet]

That's awesome! A similar landing page would take me 2 days, I'be agonizing over every detail, and the result wouldn't be half as good. Well done!

[OJFord]

No certificate / unknown issuer causes big scare page in FF by the way.

Oh and then even if I continue, corporate DNS is blocking you due to "security threat".

[_31]

Great job launching! Simple but effective landing page, I look forward to seeing the product evolve.

[tomglynch]

Show HN is reserved for the maker to post what they have made [1]. Who posted this if it was not you? Seems like a marketing ploy...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

[fookyong]

I believe this gentleman did: https://twitter.com/DainisKanopa/status/1113351502175834112

I really don't have the resources for the level of conspiracy you are implying :)

[jcims]

I’ve been using the site for a while now and wasn’t aware of that rule for Show HN. It’s clearly articulated, but I could see someone that didn’t RTFM just using it to amplify their post of something cool.

[O_H_E]

I didn't know that either, so I posted a couple of Show HNs that is not mine before. I have read the FAQ and guidelines before, but never stumbled across this page.

[nmstoker]

Easy misunderstanding. Yet assuming you didn't know this, it would logically raise a question as to why all posts featuring some form of product or service were not Show HN then.

[jcims]

Exhibit b - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19563768

[loceng]

It certainly wouldn't hurt for HN to add some JS to check for 'Show HN' in title posts and prompt to confirm they're following this rule.

[dang]

That's on my list to do. But the code would be server-side, as nearly everything on HN is.

[O_H_E]

It would be also a good idea to promote that page a little more. I have gone through the guidelines and FAQ multiple times checking for stuff, but never saw a link to the said page.

[dang]

Good point! I'll add that to the list too. We should at least include it in the FAQ.