[gustavus]

Anyone else notice that the first/near top comment on every HackerNews post lately is someone saying something along the lines of "I had X problem so I went and started working on Y solution if you want to give it a look?"

I don't want to delve into it any further - but something about it seems incongruous. It's not spam it's submarine marketing.

[sunaookami]

It's called growth hacking and it's indeed rude and annoying.

[suis_siva]

Ah sorry! Didn't mean to be annoying. Hm is open-source and my intentions are good. I'm also trying to figure out what's good and what's not!

Apologies for the spam!

[weakfish]

I mean, it is a community that self-selects for builders and startup-types.

[ceejayoz]

Same thing's all over Reddit, too.