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Comment by aquinas_ | Hacker News Reader

Who is Damon Chen and why should I take this commentary seriously?

Apparently he is the founder of testimonial.to which this link is going to so this looks like self promoting blog spam.

Thoughts and ideas stand on their own merit, and are worth sharing or criticizing regardless of who produced them. You shouldn't need to know the background of the author to agree or disagree with them, just as credentials aren't required from you to participate in this forum.

Damon Chen here (waving hand)

I'm just a guy quitting 9-5 and hope to make some money online to support my family :)

I mentioned apps I built before in this tweet. Testimonial.to is the only one that took off. https://twitter.com/damengchen/status/1344525420813697024

He’s a prolific indie creator with a history of building a successful business in the open.

More than enough credibility if you ask me.

Who are you?

This may be true but without evidence is sounds like exactly what the OP is complaining about.

His LinkedIn doesn't even claim any business building before 2.5 years ago. https://www.linkedin.com/in/damengchen It only claims he built 2 things.

It ought to behoove us to ask this question for every blog post of this nature thats posted.

Does it matter?

Of course it matters when you attempt to use your own social backing to boost someone else. That you're a commenter who has been around since 2018 who is also an "an ambitious full-stack software engineer, with a deep passion for design, user interface and front-end engineering"[1] is definitely a point in your favor, though. What made you personally feel so strongly about the original author? Your reasoning is more likely to help convince others especially if you have sources you can point to.

[1] I'm hoping he'll notice but for everyone else, I pulled this quote from the About page on the website linked from his profile.

Who are you to make those kinds of statements?

lol

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