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The original title said something negative about stock photos (but I can't recall exactly what).

I'm not sure how it got changed but this was the original title, "Hated expensive, crappy stock photos so I made this."

The guidelines ask submissions to use the page's title. Moderators often change them to conform. http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

yeah, I think the vitriol was all about the original title which was something like "I hated crappy stock photo sites, so I ..."