is it just me, or does the language used in the introduction make the whole thing feel like a huge scam?
I couldn't make it past the first transcript paragraph before my scam-sense was screaming at me to walk away.
I couldn't make it past the first transcript paragraph before my scam-sense was screaming at me to walk away.
I never heard of Poshmark and I'd like to believe I am not alone with this here either. Looks like fancy ebay with an app to me.
Poshmark is quite well known in fashion (especially women's fashion). Not quite HN's target market.... but if you're a woman who shops for clothes online you've probably seen the ads at a bare minimum. I myself was pretty surprised to see how it had succeeded despite being "fancy ebay with an app". (It is almost exclusively fashion, btw).
This does seem entirely like a puff piece; there's talk of an IPO at some point soon[0] so it doesn't surprise me that they'd be starting the hype engine going.
[0]: https://news.crunchbase.com/news/fashion-resale-marketplace-...
that totally explains it, thanks :)