[dirtyaura]

"I find it completely disingenuous that you denigrate an entire industry and portray a pittance of images as the salvation."

Huh, where did he denigrate an entire industry?

Lots of hate in this thread, which I don't get. Granted, you can find a lot of free stock photos on the internet, but I find the idea of curated list of photos targeted for product landing pages valuable. This was clearly an MVP and for some reason HN audience found it valuable and voted it to the front page, but I don't see how it deserves all the negativity that is shown in many comments.

[scott_s]

The original title said something negative about stock photos (but I can't recall exactly what).

[mikaelcho]

I'm not sure how it got changed but this was the original title, "Hated expensive, crappy stock photos so I made this."

[scott_s]

The guidelines ask submissions to use the page's title. Moderators often change them to conform. http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[mbreese]

yeah, I think the vitriol was all about the original title which was something like "I hated crappy stock photo sites, so I ..."

[corresation]

As others have said, the original title said "Hated expensive, crappy stock photos so I made this." So yeah, that's where he denigrated an entire industry.

and for some reason HN audience found it valuable and voted it to the front page

This a recurring retort. It's nonsense. A very small percentage of HNers can get something to the top of the front page (especially if it uses a title that panders to a bias, given that many people never actually click on the link). That they do in no world inoculates the target against any criticism.