[sotirisk]

Honestly the posts with the format "How I made this much money in a ridiculously small time-frame with my low-price-product/service" CAN be a bit off-putting to the reader who is not familiar with this kind of posts. I have already read quite a lot of those and still whenever one of them pops up on my news feed I still get the feeling that the writer comes out as a cheater rather than a marketing genius.

[graeme]

I don't follow. How does selling a product to a willing niche count as "cheating"?

$6000/$15 = 400 customers. That's not a gigantic amount.

[keiferski]

I sometimes get the same feeling, but at the same time, they obviously convert readers. (Otherwise they wouldn't be so common.)

[chc]

A cheater? What, did he break the rules of the Capitalism Game?

Casting aspersions like this is in very poor taste. You can't even question his actual actions — instead, you just feel like the author is a cheater. This is not reasonable discussion; it's slander, and it is hostile to the purpose of Hacker News.