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Interesting strategy. Submit a popular article and use it to advertise your “previous discussion” tool by using the usual HN convention but with your link instead.

Very growth hacky. I quite enjoy the trick, including generating the controversy with this seemingly naive response.

I love it, actually. Definitely a good marketing hack.

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I think they're just trying to be helpful.

What one considers a growth hack, another considers never-going-to-visit-that-domain.

Oh, I’m not so silly as to say it’s a good idea. I just find it entertaining.

I think I would have posted the usual “previous discussions” and then also posted “By the way, I’m building this discussion aggregator blah blah” and linked.

Submitting a popular post to introduce the need for the discussion aggregator will work. His execution was just a bit ham fisted.

Thank you all for the honest feedback. Yes, the idea was to show the usefulness of the tool "by example" using it for popular stories. I should have put more effort into it (and I'll write to dang to ask for permission).

I'll also buy a custom, less spammy looking, domain. The .pw extension is what I use for my main website which I have chosen at the time because it was cheap.

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