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Comment by scoutt | Hacker News Reader

My mood would definitely drop if I have to answer questions about my mood while I am coding. I see this tool as more corporate-jerkery oriented instead of helping to be more productive. And I can't stop thinking this HN entry was kind of forged since the 3 out of 5 cheerful comments here were done by green created-1-hour ago users. But of course, I can be wrong.

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Great catch on the 3 comments from users created 1 hour ago.

Seems suspicious.

Fair point on the distraction bit, and I hate it too! Kaapi sends two notifications a week and if your Slack notifications are off, you wont get any notification from app too :) Maybe we have some improvement areas on this topic. Will think about it more!

I do disagree on the corporate-jerkery bit. 100% of current users (454 active this week) work in tech startups. Most managers use us to get agenda points for their upcoming 1-on-1s..

On the last bit --> Yup, I sent my weekly newsletter a few minutes ago and did tell users to give us HN feedback on how we can do better! :)

I think that to succeed in your business you should poll on management, because I think every developer on earth would roll eyes (and probably hate you) when proposed insistently* into participating on giving such feedback by some wanky manager.

*should read: "participate or it will impact negatively in your performance review".

> did tell users to give us HN feedback

I am not an admin or police of this place, but be careful because it might be against the guidelines[0].

>> Can I ask people to upvote my submission? >> No...

>> Can I ask people to comment on my submission? >> No....

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

Ugh this certainly sucks. I disagree with the rule that you can’t ask for feedback on your product! But fair I guess, considering that it has lots of potentials of misuse.

Will remember this next time. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction

Posting it is asking for feedback. You can't invite other users to create an account and give feedback here.

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