I generally am in favor of creators on HN sharing a new product with Show HN, or in threads when it’s relevant to what’s being discussed. Hell, when I’m happy with a product, I’ll be the first to chime into the thread and share my satisfaction.
I have different feelings about Polar. Maybe because it repeatedly gets front page every time Anki/SRS comes up, which isn’t rare. Or maybe it’s just because when I tried to use it to expand my Anki deck with peer reviewed papers, I found it unbearably inconvenient / difficult, -plus- it insists on being yet another privacy-invading cloud offering for a product for which cloud involvement feels forcibly tacked on. Quite disappointing, since this product really solves a problem for me.
I guess the combination of “how badly I wanted to like and use this product” + “how disappointing it was in use” + “how frequently it’s on the front page” adds up to seriously being sick of seeing Polar ads.
So sick of seeing this pdf annotation software. You're never safe on this site, you'll be reading a comment or blog post then bam it's a polar ad.