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HN Slop: AI startup ideas generated from Hacker News

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244 points coloneltcb | 6 comments | 01 Jul 25 15:31 UTC | HN request time: 0.887s | source | bottom
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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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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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mouse_ ◴[02 Jul 25 10:58 UTC] No.44442179[source]▶
good for him i hope he makes it
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fennecbutt ◴[02 Jul 25 11:20 UTC] No.44442347[source]▶
Where do we draw the line at self promotion (advertising) then?
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1. mouse_ ◴[02 Jul 25 11:46 UTC] No.44442531[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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2. haswell ◴[02 Jul 25 11:52 UTC] No.44442586[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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3. mrd3v0 ◴[02 Jul 25 11:55 UTC] No.44442604[source]▶
> not apparently being done by a bot

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

4. nmilo ◴[02 Jul 25 14:35 UTC] No.44444262[source]▶
> It's ok to post your own stuff part of the time
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5. iJohnDoe ◴[02 Jul 25 15:35 UTC] No.44445016[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.

6. haswell ◴[02 Jul 25 18:08 UTC] No.44446967{3}[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.