Posted about it under a different handle. This is my "venting" handle. I didn't want to talk about the product under my real handle for competitive reasons. The amount of money that we're making is not immediately obvious to outsiders.
Why not rant over them, but only this guy who simply pointed out, that HN is not useless for marketing the product.
The product is priced highly ($10k minimum) and provides a tremendous amount of value. We only need ~350 customers to get to $5M. (The serviceable market is something like 10M in the US alone, so it's not very niche either).
I think HN gave us a great launching pad, and because we have a lot of friends who read HN, it was easy to push our product announcement to the front page. Wouldn't have been easy to do on Reddit. Techcrunch still won't cover us :) That said, we've been covered by larger outlets than Techcrunch and yeah, they have a similar effect to HN.