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Comment by jacquesm | Hacker News Reader

It's a free platform to use and not a free platform to spam especially not if the only reason you posted this ask HN is to get people to go to your domain, that's simply ban evasion. It's a bit tiresome.

Yes, I don't like what you are building, but I don't care, I do care about you polluting HN.

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HN posts have generated 0 paying clients for AIMD. If you think that I am spending my time posting on HN for the sole purpose of advertising AIMD, then you don't have a knack for advertising. HN is just not my target audience.

Meanwhile, the comments have been a valuable source of feedback that highlighted several flaws in the product.

Neither HN, nor Reddit (where it seems you have been banned for the same behavior) is in your pay, target audience or not doesn't matter.

My indy journey has so far been met with mostly positive people, eager to help. Meanwhile, really starting to sound like you are on a personal vendetta. You do you.

A personal vendetta? That's funny. No, it is much more general. HN is precious and fragile and moderator time is scarce so anybody that abuses the site is fair game for being talked to, to see if they realize that HN is a two way street and that just using the community for your own gain is a net negative for everybody else. Especially if you do so in a disproportionate manner because the way you go about using HN does not scale. Spam in general, spammers in particular and SEO types have ruined a large chunk of the net and its potential, weaponizing AI the way you intend to do (and morality be damned) may well ruin the remainder. So it isn't personal, but you are setting yourself up diametrically opposed to what I think is responsible use of this precious resource.

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