brka

thanks for the clarification, English is not our mother tongue, seems like ppl on the internet misuse gaslight a lot

No replies were faked - we just shared the post in a Discord server with a bunch of friends who commented whatever they wanted to. We're new to HN so if you have constructive criticism about how we should write our post so that it can be more valuable we'd be happy to listen, instead of accusing us

I agree about the second thing and you're right - the post was intentionally a bit clickbaity to stir up discussion. That being said, we genuinely believe our domain had an effect on our reach - it's definitely worth considering the domain choice carefully before settling on one.

Thanks for the input - we're a bootstrapped very early stage startup so we do not have the option to go with an expensive .com domain - the .study is the one that made most sense as we are an education platform

hey, yeah I would say it can handle more 'complex' material - tho for PDFs we have a limit of 50MB or 50 pages per PDF, due to costs of processing those. think most of the research papers fit in below 50 pages so you can try it out easily