> HackerNews does not appreciate marketing spiel.

Really? What do you think this link is? It just goes to a landing page to sell you and get you to sign up. This is an obvious advertisement, why do you only notice when someone makes it a comment instead of a link?

The link is assumed to be marketing. We all know what it is. Hopefully the site will tell us why it is interesting or useful. But, we know it's a landing page trying to get people to sign up.

However, when you use marketing babble in a comment, it adds no value to the conversation. "Join millions of..." that is just not helpful to the HN conversation.

Now, if the comment was -- "we developed this to try and solve X problem for Y users. Let use know what you think or if you have questions..." -- then it might have been a useful place to start the conversation. Marketing copy is not.

(And they probably did more harm than good by posting that comment)

Dial it down. You have no cause to treat me like an idiot.

Submitting a startup is very much permitted on HN. [0] Startups are the business Y Combinator are in, after all.

I assumed, as you did, that amig0ld works for this project, and is cynically ad-spamming HackerNews. My comment was intended to invite a meaningful reply. This now seems unlikely, but it was worth a shot.

(The amig0ld account was created January 2013. Its only other activity was in May 2013 - another self-promoting submission.)

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html