[lesquivemeau]

I was expecting this article to be a promotion of their audit tool considering a thread about it was flagged as spam less than two weeks ago[1]

Turns out it indeed is. Interesting article nonetheless, but it's quite ironic that it's about spam

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35233877

[Hnrobert42]

Hmm. I found this article informative. I suppose it did mention their service, but only toward the end. Even then, it wasn’t like “Buy now for 50% off!!!” So on balance, I am glad they posted.

[miohtama]

I am not any way affiliated with the company and I did the submission. I do believe that informative blog posts by industry insider should be allowed and it is not bad practice to promote your company. Especially on HackerNews where it is relevant for audience (no conflict of interest with YCombinator funded companies?).

Otherwise any SaaS ecosystem could become AWS/Google/Microsoft well known names only. Rules should be also equally applied. E.g. Each GitHub blog post promotes GitHub and thus Microsoft.

[dmix]

There's nothing wrong with content marketing if the content is quality.

[lesquivemeau]

I 100% agree with you on that point

[thenerdhead]

This is common in the "security" space.

i.e. Dunk on an ecosystem, promote your tool that somehow "makes it better", but ultimately doesn't help the problem.

Source: I work on a notable package manager where this happens regularly.

[Aperocky]

Normally posting X time is fine, because people does not necessarily catch it.

But apparently it was REAL SPAM, there goes the credibility..