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The titles for these crack me up. Each time I quickly imagine one startup incorporating all the descriptions.

I thought it was some keyword stuffing SEO spam that had accidentally ended up on the frontpage.

Cramming multiple unrelated things into one post like this doesn’t feel very HN-y.

Not sure how to do the titles for these so I'm kind of winging it. The names of the startups wouldn't mean anything to most readers, and might not fit in the 80 char limit anyhow. The current style is kind of inspired by The Browser newsletter, which digs up assorted links on the web.

If anyone has a different idea for what to put in the title field for these, I'm all ears!

Edit: do semicolons help?

I think semicolons may help. Will have to see when I read the next one. By the way, I didn’t mean my comment to be mean-spirited.

Oh no worries! like I said it sort of does the same to me.

Edit: oh - I guess I originally said that but then edited it out.

I still had the same feeling after the ';' edit. (didn't see it beforehand)

Perhaps with time we will recall this new format. This is my first time seeing it and I had to read the initial blurb before remembering you posted this 10 days ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27877280

You could say "Launch HN Batch" instead of just "Launch HN", which would give enough context to the following text without making the title too long.

Semicolons definitely help. As for the 80 char limit, you can always use wider punch cards.

Same here. Even though as recently as yesterday I was wondering when the next installment of the launch HN group thread was going to be posted, and I even checked dang’s submissions yesterday to see if I’d missed one. And yet I read this title and for each word I read my jaw opened more and more as I was imagining one startup doing all of these things xD

Sane it for mobile chats would be pretty good startup idea.

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