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PG made it rain? I just checked https://www.richkidsoftwtr.com/ and clearly he hasn't yet. Noone has.

I have no choice but to respond to the down-votes. I promised myself I wouldn't at -1 but at -3 I have no choice. This is not a complaint of any sort but I would like to say the following:

We have been active HN readers/contributors for over 3 years. The "richkidsoftwtr" HN handle is one we created simply for this service and not for our personal use.

Having said that, one thing this community appreciates is a good story about a hard working group of guys using innovative ways to solve not only the problems that their customers face but also their internal problems (i.e. how are we going to survive until the next payment is received, etc...).

If you were to honestly take time to read the "about" link (https://www.richkidsoftwtr.com/about) you would see that we're an honest group of guys trying to do something unique to solve our own cash shortage. We're not just being opportunistic douches but rather capitalizing on this opportunity given the Exec team referred to "Making It Rain" in their post.

After all, having been in this rat-race for a few years, we appreciate just as much as the next person the amount of daily grunt work required to make it. This is just part of our effort. Kudos to all the other rats who appreciate our effort.

As someone who doesn't know what you do or who this is for the home and about pages both need a lot of work. From what I can see your service lets me give money to someone in a 'fun' way but you guys get a %?

Other than that I have no idea

I don't know why everyone is worked up about this. Having read their about page and seeing their service it Seems like a pretty legitimate startup story to me. Kind of a cool way to raise money if you ask me.

He made it rain at the end of the video.

We're a startup too and you can see the story behind this service here https://www.richkidsoftwtr.com/about

Having said that, congrats to exec. Definitely not our intention to take away any spotlight from them by posting that here. We just found it fitting. We'll gladly take down this link if the OP asks.

I get that the name is from a meme, or something, but it's all just a bit too ridiculous. It sounds like a tumblr of spoiled suburban kids' tweets, not what I gather is gittip for twitter - which seems like a shaky premise.

The downvotes are probably because you aren't adding anything to the discussion, just blindly pimping your site. If it comes up in a discussion, or it's relevant to the topic at hand, throw in a plug. But making an account expressly for spamming is a poor choice.

We're well aware of the fact that this is rather ridiculous. That is part of what captivates people about the service when we tell them about it. As for the premise of the service, it's somewhat different from what you have in mind. Clicking the "i" at the top right explains what the service really is.

In any case, I didn't want to get into the details before but we were actually unable to post the link to HN using this account as a "new" submission so we had given up on posting to HN. Trust me, I, like you hate when people plug their service on someone else's post. Having said that, when we were reading HN today and saw this headline, we couldn't resist.

It could definitely use a better description; basically I'm throwing my money into a well, and you guys get a cut? If there's some charitable component, or the destination of the cash was more transparent, then I get it. Otherwise it just seems like paying a lot of money for a tweet, which I guess somw people might be into.

So, I guess, good luck. It seems really weird and unlikely.

Fair enough. In all honesty, there are an infinite number of purchases displayed on the richkidsofinstagram website that I cannot understand or ever justify but it caters to a crowd that thinks and operates far differently than you or I - and those are the ones we are targeting. Hence the somewhat "arrogant" language in the info page.

Thanks for the "luck".

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