Can you please stop spamming this every time a remotely related topic (which apparently now also includes CRDTs and blockchain) is mentioned?
I get it, you don't like seeing Open Source (MIT/ZLIB/Apache2) posted about. But that isn't my problem, others do, and I don't profit from it. In fact, it takes a significant amount of my time to help provide free support to any the ~8K developers developers in our community. I'm not ashamed of this, nor do I think it is spam. If I was selling a service or a product, sure. But that isn't the case.
No you don't get it. I love hearing about such products - from the people who love using it so much that they feel the need to spread the word around. Submissions about project news are also great, because they can be separately up/downvoted, and don't ride on the coattails of trending submissions. That plus deceitful marketing tricks ("ranked #2 on Github" for a buzzword keyword you picked out, doesn't mean shit) is clearly spam in my book.
> and I don't profit from it
Is it not true that you run a VC-funded company that is behind gun, as you have claimed on other occasions? If it's VC-funded there probably is a profit goal in the foreseeable timeline.
> ~8K developers in our community
Stars on Github doesn't translate to community members, especially if they are gained by high-publicity actions, like posts on HN. This is meant as advice coming from someone who made the mistake of seeing them equivalent in the past. We got ~5k stars via HN for Leaf[0], and I know that only about 10-20 people tried to even use the library. Judging from the activity on the gun repo, it does look to be a little bit better, but not by much.
Can you see, at all, from the other perspective? Maybe I annoy the living daylights out of you, but can you also see how you come off as one of those cliche "hater HN commentors"?
If you had 3 worlds to choose from, one where people openly talk about their work which they give away for free to others, or a world where everybody tries to censor, silence, and hate on others for being passionate about their Open Source projects, or a world where, because everybody is so spiteful and nobody is supportive, that everybody is forced to make their software proprietary and charge for it. Which world would you want to be in?
VC funding is another indication/signal of the value I have created. And no, they don't want me to do some stupid "open core" crippleware (like some of my competitors do) or even convert the open source code from MIT/similar to a terrible AGPL/similar license. They want me to create such a core component of infrastructure that we become the defacto standard, like MySQL, Redhat, and others have become.
So no. You have no basis to hate what we are doing, except for your own frustration probably at hate others have given you. Don't pass that along, you are better than that.
> that there is a good 70 to 80 who appreciate it, get value from it, discover a new cool tool, and wind up building projects and helping out.
Then why do I always ever see you posting comments about gun, and not any of those people?
I don't argue that HN isn't a place that can also be used for self-promotion, but there is a right time and place for it: "Show HN", and when people specifically post comments seeking out something like what you are building.
There are also mechanisms in place to prevent too much self-promotion, like not being able to submit the same link twice. You know that, as you've also "cleverly" figured out how to circumvent it and submit the gun Github repo >10 times.