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This is HN's best feature - the discussions are often better than the story and often offer new things to learn about.
It's possible the ToS may be saying the link text itself should be nice, etc.
So you could say something like, "The Olympics games are [insert your term here]", use the link text "Olympics" and you could be in the clear.
Use some derogatory text in place of [insert your term here], resulting in a visit by the link police who will extradite you for a long 'vacation' to some island in the northern Caribbean Sea.
You also don't present any good use cases - why would I want to spend $99 on this? What does it do for me that a plain website cannot?
Consider presenting the benefits of your idea using your idea, like you did with the API docs, to demonstrate a practical use case.
Apart from those things - great idea!
Here's a link to the tulip controller - you can mostly figure out what it does reading through the well-structured code:
https://github.com/globaleaks/GlobaLeaks/blob/master/globale...
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