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Ruby on Rails “location hack” to better engage with your users

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7 pointsnicolrx13 comments

This is fraud. It's not made in that country. The few people complaining are because a) the barrier to complaint is high b) not many people read it c) they don't know that it's false.

If your a digital nomad, have it follow you round the world, or list all the countries you've done substantial work on it in.

Not mentioning taxes, counterfeiting laws, and immigration issues if you claim you made something in the US when you are not.

Same goes for claiming to be made in most countries when it is not. I'm pretty sure the author/company founder is in France and EU law has quite a few things to say on the matter of misrepresenting goods and services provided. His post is pretty much a confession of such misrepresentation.

Well, it only takes one report to the relevant authority.

Shady as fuck. This tactic is also known as lying. Just some more Medium trash

I agree. The author should just omit the "Made with love in $COUNTRY" line. No need for all these hoops.

Writing the string "Made with love in $COUNTRY" would actually be kind of funny.

Or you could have it display the country the client was accessing the site from only if you have done work in that country.

I get that there is some value in knowing that your software is made in the country that you live, but this is just deceptive

Classic "growth hacking" — it feels deeply unethical, and makes me question the judgment of the person behind Botletter.

I'd do it only for the visitors from the country the web app was made into.

I'd leave out the "with love" part that always sounds phony to me.

Thank you for your feedback! I changed the formula for "Made with love for {{user_country}}". My intention wasn't to fool people but just experiment something to get to know them better.

Yeah, no thanks. You better engage with your users because you're lying to them and develop a false sense of connection with them.

I really with HN allowed users to downvote on article.

Given what their product does, I'm not surprised at the lack of ethics on display here.

Hooray for "growth hacking"

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