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The comparison to Redis felt misleading when I realized it was a commercial product.

I'm not sure I like this recent trend of people registering new accounts on HN to use "Show HN" to pitch commercial products.

Show HN is fun to see projects people have been working on and want to share for the good of the community. It's less fun when it's being used as a simple advertising mechanism to drive purchases.

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It's a suitable comparison I think. Redis is also not open-source.

https://github.com/redis/redis/blob/unstable/LICENSE.txt

As of 12 months ago, sure, but before that Redis was open source for 15 years.

Show HN is not limited to open source projects.

I never said it was. Seeing green accounts (just registered) doing nothing other than promote products doesn't feel consistent with the spirit of Show HN.

There's nothing wrong with green accounts doing Show HNs, really.

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