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by latexr 506 days ago
The testimonials are fake, as far as I can tell¹.

I became immediately suspicious when I saw star ratings and @ usernames for Reddit users with no links. So I searched.

Two of the Reddit users don’t exist at all:

https://www.reddit.com/user/Udupi_S/

https://www.reddit.com/user/ching_c2/

The third only posted once, 8 years ago²:

https://www.reddit.com/user/startup_founder/

The fourth one did comment about this, though of course there are no stars:

https://www.reddit.com/r/SideProject/comments/1hs9jem/commen...

Same thing with the HN (I assume, from the icon) testimonials. One user doesn’t exist:

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=techie42

The other hasn’t posted in 12 years:

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=devhacker

This frankly looks like you asked an LLM to create “real-looking” testimonials for an app and decided to fake your way in. Not the first time I see these shenanigans.

¹ https://i.imgur.com/UAASkDR.png

² It was not about this app, but do read the post. It’s a hilariously dumb idea.

1 comments

OP also mistakenly commented from his main account: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42910261

For posterity's sake: his main account is: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jaynpatel , interestingly the submissions page is full of dead Show HN's of all the things he's "made".