Didn’t Homejoy Shut Down?

I think it goes without saying that there is nothing remotely legitimate happening here. The fact that Aaron posted this comment and expected anybody to believe it is remarkable.

That being said, I spent 5 minutes researching Aaron Cheung and I was astonished by what I found. He has a Twitter account, but has posted exactly 0 times [1]. He has an HN account, but has posted exactly 0 times [2], and only commented twice (including today). He graduated from MIT in 2009 and this has seemingly been the only real job he's had for the past 5 years [3].

I think, from this perspective, I understand why Aaron is doing what he's doing. It doesn't make it right, not even close, but this person has lived and breathed the home cleaning space for his entire professional career. He may not have the slightest idea what else he could possibly do instead.

    [1]: https://twitter.com/aarontcheung
    [2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=aarontcheung
    [3]: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aarontcheung

Edit: I'm certainly not claiming that people who are inactive on social media are bad people. But given the complete picture of what has been reported in the media, what was revealed today and the tone-deafness of his comment, I personally think this lack of engagement is part of the explanation.

What does it matter whether he twittered or hacker newsered? What a weird thing to bring up.

More importantly, this is gratuitously personal. Stalking expeditions are not welcome on Hacker News, whatever one's opinion of the story at hand. Please don't do this on this site.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10467925 and marked it off-topic.

>More importantly, this is gratuitously personal. Stalking expeditions are not welcome on Hacker News, whatever one's opinion of the story at hand. Please don't do this on this site.

I agree with your point that they are weird things to bring up, but how is that "stalking"? It's looking at 3 very public profile pages, which requires almost no effort to look at. Unless you've edited the post to remove information, that seems entirely benign. There's absolutely 0 expectation of privacy with those pages, and almost by definition were created to allow access for the general public to that information.