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by joshguthrie 4811 days ago
Is this really relevant to HN?

Telling us about "Wow, that KS project got 2M$ in ten minutes" is nice and often appreciated for the angle. Now making an account on HN just to advertise a board game that's missing 10K funding and has 9 days left? This is just cheap advertisement.
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replicatorblog 4811 days ago
The creator is a hacker and teaches for treehouse. He's also gotten some fairly prominent techies to play test so there is some good will in the community. The interesting bit, IMO, is that it's now pretty feasible to have manufacturing/product design as a hobby rather than vocation.
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joshguthrie 4811 days ago
I admit I didn't look further than the connection "account less than two weeks old, never contributed, is the game's designer".

For the interesting bit, it's sadly pretty absent: there's no "story" to this, no angle. Just "look at my KS" and even on the KS page, no story, nothing about the creators,...

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achalkley 4811 days ago
If you're interested : http://blog.teamtreehouse.com/web-developer-treehouse-teache...

:)

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joshguthrie 4811 days ago
Okay, now THAT's interesting (as in "got a story/angle") and HN-related :)
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javanix 4811 days ago
Is it really any different than the YC job postings and constant posts from TechCrunch and the like?

Why wouldn't you make a post on HN to try to get some extra eyeballs? It isn't like you can pay to have posts on the front page - you still need support from viewers to move it up top.

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joshguthrie 4811 days ago
The YC job postings are relevant HN. They may seem like bacon to people who're not looking for a job (or are not interested by the YC club, but they are still a part of HN/YC.

TechCrunch is a different issue. Yes, cross-posting everything here through ghost accounts is a sucky move, yet their subjects are "relevant" (when it's about tech, silicon valley life),...

And I wouldn't go as far as say "People don't post on HN for extra eyeballs", but there's a difference between a member advertising a tech product and someone who creates an account just for advertising a non-tech product. If not, what's next? Anybody here trying to sell his car?

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javanix 4811 days ago
Again, the fact that enough people cared enough about his project to get it to the front page is enough for me to say "This is relevant to HN". He's an entrepreneur, it is a project well within the demographic for this site's purview, and he didn't do anything except submit it for people to look at and approve/disapprove of.

More power to you if you can get people to up-vote your ad for a 1992 Toyota Corolla without people flagging it into submission.

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