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Please stop hijacking another startup's launch thread. You've already posted elsewhere in the thread, and that part was pretty obviously a fake, staged conversation. Not cool. (In case anyone's wondering, yes, this is just as not-cool whether the startup is YC funded or not, and I've posted such scoldings in such threads in the past.)

Manipulative tactics like voting rings and staged comments are not ok on HN—this is in both the site guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html) and the FAQ (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html) so please don't do those things again.

You already had a nice and prominent Show HN for your own startup just a few weeks ago—one which, by the way, we helped out by putting it in the second chance pool (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308).

(We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34599406.)

Was not my intention at all, sunlight is the best disinfectant.

I'm not saying you're accusing me of anything, but what would be a fair comment in you're eyes, I'll be happy to learn.

What would be fairest is to let a competing startup have their launch thread without trying to interfere with it. Each startup deserves its own day in the sun.

If you're going to post, you certainly shouldn't do it more than once.

Replying in multiple places to change the subject to your own promotion is in bad taste, and orchestrating exchanges with seemingly-unrelated other users is an outright abuse and the sort of thing we ban accounts for if they do it repeatedly.

My bad, thanks for letting me know.

I tend to see Needl as peers, not competition, sometimes peers behave in bad taste.

Just to make it clear: I'm not involved in Haystack. I commented here and shared a link on their discord, so someone from their team could have an opportunity to answer

By the way, thank for helping our own startup, we are really grateful for all the attention and encouragement we have received from HN community

My apologies to you, Max and James. This is not how I expected things to turn out

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