[dannywarner]

Three things:

1. You don't know what privacy is. "We believe that Kagi has the most user-friendly privacy policy of any search engine out there. However, privacy and anonymity are not the same things. For example your parents can know everything about you and still fully respect your privacy." Ask any kid if privacy is their parents knowing everything. You're using it as a marketing term.

2. This is illegal public solicitation and an SEC violation: "anyone passionate about Kagi and our vision for the web will have the opportunity to invest as little as $5,000 USD and join the ride with us. It would be structured as a SAFE note and we would use the funds to expand the team and accelerate our product vision."

3. Stop abusing HN to shill your paid search engine. "We are pleased to see that Kagi is propagating fast through Hacker News, Reddit and Twitter with word of mouth from existing users." Kagi shills hijack every single Hn discussion thread about search. You is just as bad. Just. Stop.

[freediver]

Hi Danny

1. Attention was brought to us for the unfortunate phrasing of that sentence and it was edited in the post

2. I am curious what rules are violated by mentioning plans for an investment round?

3. While I am glad this discussion happened, it was not submitted or solicited by any Kagi team member. We published a blog post this morning and our users (I assume) took it from there, as these things tend to happen.

Finally the post you linked to in your second post was from a clearly excited user (not Kagi team member) on our public forum.

[dang]

It looks like you have some substantive points, but can you please not be aggressive like this on HN?

I appreciate that you're watching out for the quality of the site, but you broke the site guidelines here, which is no doubt why users flagged your post.

Beyond that, your points would be much more persuasive if you made them more neutrally, without this kind of attack.

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

[dannywarner]

I am sorry @dang I apologize for the aggressive tone of my comment and not making a better argument without the anger. The promotion felt blatant. I let it get to me (every comment I believe at the time - and many other recent posts). It was wrong and I'm sorry.

Fwiw this was the source of the self-promotion.

https://kagifeedback.org/d/887-comment-on-hn-discussion-of-k...

[Semaphor]

Just to let you know, I flagged your original comment because, as dang said, it was too aggressive, personally attacking me. I’m enthusiastic about Kagi, but certainly not a shill.

The kagifeedback thread you posted was also by another (imo too enthusiastic) user of kagi with no relation to the devs.