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by diminish 4314 days ago
I feel paranoid, too:

Surprise HN; I'm trying to grasp why this is upvoted so high (1) This submission has a reddit style storified title but doesn't link to the story (2) Uses the word "app" , to catch the mobile crowd, which for Windows wasn't used traditionally (That also explain the top comment, which is about aesthetics) (3) seems to suggest the problem is solved the first time, despite the fact that there are dozens of similar apps, commercial, free or open source.
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Kudos 4314 days ago
It is the best looking and best presented Windows app I can remember seeing. Can you show me a single app with similar functionality that is presented as well as this?
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Nilzor 4313 days ago
Why is that relevant? _diminish_ points out misleading marketing in the HN post title. It aggrevates me as well, even though the presentation on their web site is nice and all that.

_edit_: I can see that your post is relevant with regards to (3) - "problem solved for the first time". They may have some features that no others have, such as alerts. There are many similar apps though. One example: Netlimiter http://www.netlimiter.com/

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Kudos 4313 days ago
You're ignoring the aesthetics of the app and the marketing. It stands apart because of it.

To give you an anecdotal idea of how compelling that can be, I booted my gaming Windows machine just to take a closer look at it.

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