Ask HN:Fake MRR as a Marketing Strategy

[ilyaovchinnikov]

I've stopped trusting the MRR. It seems that lately, more and more people are using this dirty strategy to attract an audience to their product.

It works like this:

1. Wow, he made $2,000 with one launch on PH. 2. The product must be a quality product if so many people bought it. 3. I'll give it a try.

Also, MRR's screenshots are creating a network effect on Twitter. The tweets of this character, automatically become more valuable, because he earned, he won.

I think this has started to gain momentum in the last year or two. What do you think?

[JohnFen]

I guess that there are lots of people who have yet to learn that popularity and quality are not tightly correlated.