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    HN Slop: AI startup ideas generated from Hacker News

    (www.josh.ing)
    244 points coloneltcb | 16 comments | 01 Jul 25 15:31 UTC | HN request time: 1.855s | source | bottom
    1. mittermayr ◴[01 Jul 25 20:12 UTC] No.44437606[source]▶
    This should be connected to https://comsensei.com to get an available domain for each one of the ideas. It's all coming together :)
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    2. nusl ◴[02 Jul 25 09:05 UTC] No.44441524[source]▶
    You're promoting your own website based on AI-generated things on a Hacker News post aimed at generating AI slop.
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    3. mouse_ ◴[02 Jul 25 10:58 UTC] No.44442179[source]▶
    good for him i hope he makes it
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    4. fennecbutt ◴[02 Jul 25 11:20 UTC] No.44442347{3}[source]▶
    Where do we draw the line at self promotion (advertising) then?
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    5. mouse_ ◴[02 Jul 25 11:46 UTC] No.44442531{4}[source]▶
    As long as it's not apparently being done by a bot, who cares?

    This is effectively an advertising website.

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    6. haswell ◴[02 Jul 25 11:52 UTC] No.44442586{5}[source]▶
    This is not primarily an advertising site. See guidelines:

    > Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff part of the time, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity.

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    7. mrd3v0 ◴[02 Jul 25 11:55 UTC] No.44442604{5}[source]▶
    > not apparently being done by a bot

    LLMs will make this very hard to detect, very soon if not already.

    8. mittermayr ◴[02 Jul 25 12:07 UTC] No.44442730[source]▶
    I've received nothing but nice messages about the site after posting it and people seem to be getting a kick out of it. I feel like this (if barely so) meets the bar to give it a pass perhaps, especially considering that my voice is worth as much as yours and the next person, so without upvotes, it will disappear, just how it's meant to be. Hope that helps a bit.
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    9. oceanhaiyang ◴[02 Jul 25 12:25 UTC] No.44442895[source]▶
    I like how I submit a request and it never loads.
    10. nmilo ◴[02 Jul 25 14:35 UTC] No.44444262{6}[source]▶
    > It's ok to post your own stuff part of the time
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    11. nine_k ◴[02 Jul 25 14:59 UTC] No.44444574{4}[source]▶
    If anything, this was a very short and quite contextual piece of text-only advertising. If all online advertising were like that, I won't have to run an ad blocker.
    12. iJohnDoe ◴[02 Jul 25 15:35 UTC] No.44445016{5}[source]▶
    Most of the time, the top post of a Show HN is someone else talking about their own project or something off-topic from the Show HN.

    Self-promotion on HN is constant.

    13. collingreen ◴[02 Jul 25 15:47 UTC] No.44445173{4}[source]▶
    For me, undisclosed self promotion puts a very bad taste in my mouth, to the point of coming off as bad faith. I dislike pretending you're just mentioning a cool service since you're effectively trying to trick me with false social proof.

    If the post had said "I made xyz which could auto generate domains for these ideas using ai to fully close the slop gap" I wouldn't mind and might even appreciate the additional fun.

    14. vntok ◴[02 Jul 25 16:51 UTC] No.44445968{4}[source]▶
    No need to do that. The provenance does not matter as long as the content is interesting, which is the case here.

    This is the original hacker's ethos: put something out there for others to use, and let the people make their own opinion about the thing itself, not the authoritativeness of its source.

    15. haswell ◴[02 Jul 25 18:08 UTC] No.44446967{7}[source]▶
    Yes. I was responding specifically to this claim:

    > This is effectively an advertising website.

    Which remains untrue even if you're allowed to post your own stuff from time to time.

    16. nusl ◴[04 Jul 25 12:05 UTC] No.44463793{3}[source]▶
    I mentioned it because you didn't disclose that you're responsible for it. If you had mentioned you're the owner, sure. Though it comes across as a disingenuous recommendation when folk put stock in such things being in good faith.

    Also, the product type you promoted is something that I've seen replicated many times, more often very badly. Mentioning such a product on an article aimed at AI slop seemed somewhat ironic.