Uber is valued at $70B, you can get it at $999

Would you people please stop this?

Every single one of these bogus votes was dropped by our software, and the hundreds of spam accounts you've created have been detected by our software and banned. None of this is going to work, and HN readers would immediately flag your submissions anyway. You're just wasting your time and ours.

It managed to trigger an alert through push bullet. It fwds me stories with more than 500 upvotes.

Would be neat if HN allowed inspection of anonymized aggregated vote count per country and timestamp, so that the community can call out the bullshit if there are suspicious patterns.

Just got a Pushbullet push notification.

Seems like this was forcibly pushed to 500.

Actually someone now got the system to trigger a push notification :D

Plus $2.8 billion to buy market share. The $999 price tag is a modern day Pyrrhic victory.

http://money.cnn.com/2017/04/14/technology/uber-financials/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrrhic_victory

TL;DR:

1. Find a popular app

2. Find a niche that that app isn't covering (like a localized version or other)

3. Make your app cover that niche

4. Wait until the popular app owners buy you out

5. ????

6. PROFIT!