Dang, sinister plan revealed: I am in fact a sleeper agent sent back from 2016 to 2006 with the instructions to build the most unlikely business possible, gather 75k karma, and then pave the way for my shadowy masters to get on HN.

Seriously: they're on my blog because of the reasons in the post. My blog's on HN because, well, that's a complicated topic but suffice it to say that it happens with a fair degree of regularity.

For what it's worth, we don't have a PR company or marketing department currently =).

We try not to post on HN unless we actually think people on HN will like the content (and we've argued internally before and decided not to post stuff to HN because it didn't seem useful enough).