Show HN: Hack corporate purchasing

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Not to be rude, but most of these comments are from accounts less than a day old. Obviously there's nothing wrong with asking your satisfied customers to commend your product, but it just smells "off" without a bit of disclosure.

Well full disclosure, I'm a friend of the developer's and warned him that asking his beta users to comment would look sketchy.

However, to be fair, all he did was share the link to the HN post on facebook and ask for comments, so all of the comments you see here were actually written by the users out of their own volition, they were just made aware of the post.

Beta users willing to go out of their way to sign up and post on hacker news (outside of their professional domain) are definitely a good sign!

This appears more useful for larger companies. Startups can usually shout across the office and get approval to purchase whatever is necessary. At least until they grow big enough.

Hi aianus - we're targeting organizations with 25-1,000 employees. This appears to be the sweet spot for us (at least currently).

Hello all - new to HN and looking for feedback from this community. Specifically would like to hear from salespeople and folks who have tried to purchase for their organizations.

It looks like you've been astroturfing this thread. That will make this community about as friendly as a wild boar on fire.

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