[richardv]

Has anyone on HN been successful in a previous startuppack round?

[300bps]

Had no idea what you meant until I saw:

We check applications then draw lots for 500 winners

To put it mildly, it's very misleading to submit a story that states, "Startup Pack gives away $5,000 worth of tools" when the reality is "Startup Pack holds sweepstakes for $5,000 worth of tools".

[bauer]

+1. I was about to recommend it to a startup I'm friendly with until I saw that. No one likes to be deceived.

[level09]

Yes indeed it is. after reading that I wanted to withdraw my application.

[semerda]

Isn't this a bait tactic for them to scrape data on startups?

[knes]

I Got the Dev Pack which was pretty good. Just started using the New Relic coupon on my Rails app actually.