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This response is fishy as hell. I don't know what Priyanka's title was at WakaTime but I viewed her as the public face of the company, as judged by the dozens of emails I have from WakaTime that all came from her, her activity in the Slack, her blog posts which were removed from the WakaTime blog, etc.

Here's one example of an email from Priyanka on behalf of WakaTime:

https://i.imgur.com/PYHuc8s.png

And the removal of her blog posts:

https://github.com/wakatime/wakatime-blog/commit/5d671e9aab6...

Edit:

And an interesting Twitter thread:

https://twitter.com/downey/status/861908826223759360

This makes me want to stop paying for WakaTime.

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> Here's one example of an email from Priyanka on behalf of WakaTime

At the time I was happy when she said she would send the newsletter emails for me, but now I see she just wanted people to think she was the public face for WakaTime to further a tech founder persona. Yea I made a mistake letting her send newsletters on behalf of WakaTime, but that doesn't mean she can claim to have built WakaTime.

> This response is fishy as hell.

I didn't raise a fuss when I should have because I didn't want to cause her trouble, but then she demanded a large sum of money from me in exchange for giving me WakaTime... when she never owned WakaTime. That's what I consider fishey.

Are you saying she didn't write the content of the newsletters, or moderate the Slack, or write those blog posts? I don't think anyone is contending that she wrote the code but I know my own interest in WakaTime would have waned without the community and the newsletters.

I am still unsatisfied with your version of events because it seems to discount that Priyanka did any work at all.

Her first blog post was on: 2014-12-16

Her last blog post was on: 2015-03-31

This doesn't look like an sophisticated engagement.

Here's a Google Trends chart for 'WakaTime':

https://i.imgur.com/VHeJPYY.png

That first spike is December 2014. Interesting timing!

The last Slack notification email I have from her is from 10/26/2015. Why is it so hard to believe that she did a year or so's worth of work for WakaTime? Why are her contributions to be valued less because they aren't code?

Then maybe you should investigate more, for example using the waybackmachine and finding out that Alan founded WakaTime almost 2 years before she ever appeared on the website. He didn't even know her when he started WakaTime.

Also read: https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=15617309&goto=item%3Fi...

She's very good at making people believe her lies.

Alan is the least fishy guy I know amd I don’t doubt his word for a second.

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