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PG: The biggest source of stress for me at YC was running HN

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482 points ilamont | 4 comments | 11 Jul 20 21:53 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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cheeze ◴[11 Jul 20 22:50 UTC] No.23806856[source]▶
On the flipside - Let's not act like ycombinator doesn't benefit from hn. YCombinator gets free advertising to a TON of good engineers for their companies roles (the posts that you can't comment on that mention X random ycombinator company is looking for Y role). Surely that has to be worth something...

I don't disagree with pg's statement here, but IMO yc gets pretty big benefit from running the forum.

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1. musicale ◴[11 Jul 20 23:18 UTC] No.23807072[source]▶
Presumably one or two good hires would more than compensate for years of running HN, but forum moderation is still a difficult and stressful job.
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2. renewiltord ◴[11 Jul 20 23:23 UTC] No.23807099[source]▶
Interesting. How do you account that? Two good hires can probably repeatably be obtained for under $100k in spending or giving away $100k of your company. Since Daniel G (dang) works on HN full time, and almost certainly makes more than $100k, that doesn't make sense to me.
3. swyx ◴[12 Jul 20 10:56 UTC] No.23810452[source]▶
is dang paid to do this? how does it work?
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4. dang ◴[13 Jul 20 02:00 UTC] No.23816468[source]▶
Yes.