You realize this site is one big ad for YC and its minion fledgling not-always-entirely-legitimate companies, right?
The job of this site is to legitimize up and coming nothings in the eyes of you, the dear early adopter.
You've been had.
In other news, have you heard companies are hiring to CREATE DELIGHTFUL PAYROLL and for MINOMONSTERS (because nobody actually wants to work on that, they have to post job spam every two days) and, oh, look, immad has thrown up his 200th job advert for zerozap again too.
I know what this site is and I can use it for my own purposes. But having to see popups or god knows whatever other eyesores would no longer make it worthwhile even in such minimal regards. I could care less about startups or especially anything relative to marketing or investment. But the factoid linkages are the real gold. I only care about information, not Capitalism. Not in the slightest.
What if PG sold ad space to HN users? Plenty of people here would doubtless pay to be able to drop something into a text-only banner at the bottom of the page or something.
The job of this site is to legitimize up and coming nothings in the eyes of you, the dear early adopter.
You've been had.
In other news, have you heard companies are hiring to CREATE DELIGHTFUL PAYROLL and for MINOMONSTERS (because nobody actually wants to work on that, they have to post job spam every two days) and, oh, look, immad has thrown up his 200th job advert for zerozap again too.