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So... you just happened to hear about this new chat app and you just happened to post literally the longest sales pitch I ever read on Hacker News, and I mean longer by an order of magnitude? Mind disclosing your relationship with these folks on whom you are lavishing all your attention?

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Expensify's CEO really does send out these exceptionally long and conversational marketing emails, apparently to anyone who ever used (or was required to use) their app. It's a somewhat charming approach in its own way, but the emails were quite frequent and not always that interesting so I unsubscribed.

However: because Expensify does have that habit, I don't think it's unreasonable that the poster just happened to receive this marketing email.

I'm a customer which is why I got the email. I posted it because I think it's a pretty fascinating and unusual product announcement from a fairly well-known startup, and the way it's written (and its length) is a big part of that.

I could've summarized the claims, but I don't think that would've done it justice haha.

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