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It's not just you. Reminds me of this fluff piece about superhuman [0]. It appears to be an article written by the investors, so yeah obviously they are super hyped.

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.

[0]: https://a16z.com/2019/06/27/superhuman/

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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-...

> 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.

that totally explains it, thanks :)

Poshmark is very well know in the fashion space, which probably has very different demographics to the HN crowd.

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