It didn't slip through the ring detector. All those votes were flagged by our software. And yes, the comments are obviously promotional. Not cool!

All: please don't ask friends or teammates to upvote your posts. It's against the rules here—see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html. And especially please make sure they don't post booster comments in the threads. HN users are really good at detecting this and consider it spamming. They'll flag the post and email us to complain.