I'm still interested in the product, but I've already got a bad taste in my mouth. If it's good, leave it to speak for itself.
I've been building in public on Twitter and LinkedIn over the last few months and pre-announced the launch a few weeks in advance. I think a lot of the comments here were just folks flowing through there.
As for the potential of fake accounts - doesn’t HN have protection against this?
Isn't it strange that 3 accounts were created moments before the post and then all happened to make their first and only comments on this post, each with strongly positive responses and not disclosing any link to the project?
A further account has been created since then:
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=chucklarrieu
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=botcanics
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=bcalderwood
I do understand that HN has voter ring detection which seeks to cluster groups of users who engage strongly in cooperative voting, but the accounts here are probably too new to establish a pattern strong enough to call a voting ring already.
At first, people might think "$10,000 demo problem? What a high number!" Realistically, in corp environments, that number is an understatement. Plus the long time (and pain) it takes to get every team's buy-in to help with capturing/generating that data.
