Lessons From My Failed Startup

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4 points·SeanOC··4 comments

More medium.com spam, for the love of whatever is holy to you why do you keep spamming HN with this stuff? Props to you guys for figuring out how to beat the spam/voting ring detectors but you're ruining one of the nicer websites that I know about.

Author of the post here. Is the only reason you think the post is spam that it's hosted on medium?

I mostly posted this there to try it out but if there is something wrong with doing so (other than seeing a tld of medium.com), I'd really appreciate hearing about it.

Medium.com has been literally flooding the HN front page in the last few weeks, not a day goes by without 1, 2 or as earlier today even 4 articles (for want of a better term) on the homepage.

Comparable content from other sources would normally not gain nearly as many upvotes in as short a time as the medium.com stuff does.

You know there is something afoot when a medium.com story gets more upvotes and appears on the homepage seconds after being posted contrasted with for instance an article written by Joe Armstrong or phys.org article about the visualization of chemical bonds being formed and broken.

That's not proof by a long shot but there is definitely something going on there.

What do you propose? This wasn't spam, I appreciated the article. I have read a number of "failed startup" articles, but my takeaway from this one was the "launch == reality" part.

It seems that many people who would have written an article on their own blog are writing for medium instead. It seems like the HN community will become more discriminate in only upvoting the good articles from medium.

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