You're making inferences based on no data, while at the same time trolling on this thread and claiming some higher moral purpose.

These are false, AKA "Fact-Free" and based on nothing but you're own world view: 1. That this is some publicity stunt I dreamed up. 2. That my aim to "profit" from this somehow. That is laughable/delusional. The product is free and I donate my time and money to it for my own gratification, 3. That I'm looking to HackerNews as a source of "personal credibility".

I don't care that you have, at the very least an implicit, financial relationship with 37 Signals. I do ask that you be explicit and transparent about that #credibility