Food for thought: sales for the first six months of an help desk app

I admit it's odd, but there are no suspicious statistical patterns in the voting. If it's a ring, it's a new one.

Why was it blocked 5 minutes ago? This is a great example of a post (and marketing move) to release much-asked for sales information to software vendors, who at the same time, may be very interested in the product itself.

dupe: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=199645

This was on reddit before it showed up on news.yc. I suspect that people read it and discussed it on reddit, then came over here and gave it a bump with no comment.

I've seen submissions be upvoted quickly before. This is exactly the type that would be upvoted quickly--nobody ever posts how much money they make with their app.

I think people are very interested in how much other people/businesses/lines of businesses make and this author was very forthcoming about it.