Comment by underyx | Hacker News Reader

Comment by underyx | Hacker News Reader

I suspect that OP owns park.io and created this post just to covertly market that website. Signs that point to this:

- it's a completely unnotable example compared to more well-known companies in the comments

- No one else thought to include further promo material like OP's linked interview for the service they answered

- OP's post history contains several failed attempts to promote 5things.xyz with HN submissions (demonstrating a tendency to self-promote)

- After these failed attempts OP made their only meaningful-looking contribution to the HN community by posting 'Ask HN: What are your favorite tech sites besides HN?'

- However, the aforementioned 5things.xyz is a competitor in this space

- And of course, this last post had a commenter answering 5things.xyz in the thread, with the user being registered the same day only to make that one comment, and even being given a random fake-sounding username: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=syrup89

- However, this shill comment was mostly ignored by everyone, and this failure apparently prompted OP to include their promoted answer in the body of their Ask HN post instead this time

Edit: My comment got downvoted twice within one minute of posting (:

I lately noticed a lot of threads similar to these with a lot of meaningless comments like for example "What a great product!", "WoW! Finally! Waited for this so long", "Perfect product, will be using!" from accounts that were made 30 days ago or 3 days ago, or same time as thread were created.

That's just the Eternal September.

Whilst I appreciate the OPs diligence, I would actually tend to disagree. The user may have seen it mentioned on indie hacker, which would be a plausible place to encounter 'a simple script that looked for available domains'

While possible, my 3rd to 7th bullet points, a lack of any other activity from OP, and the instant downvote brigading still make me nearly certain that this was all a scheme to promote this one site.

Good analysis. I gave benefit of the doubt, as the domains are registered and built differently (one with humbly, on aws, the latter on wix). It could just be that the poster had attempted to copy something simple unsuccessfully, and looking for new ideas.

> Founder of humbly.com, park.io, file.io, co-founder of wizehive.com

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ca98am79

haha thank you and sorry for the bad pr in this chain. If this dude just used google and a whois lookup for 2 seconds its pretty obvious.

I agree with you def. looks like marketing for park.io

Hi, I am the founder of park.io and did not post this, but feel free to ask me any questions

I really don't, but good armchair analysis my guy. I was just reading indie hacker and was wondering what else is out there like this in terms of simplicity. Also my website is far from a competitor to park.io its just a personal EE blog with stuff I like and Matlab I write.

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