It did rise organically to the front page, at least as far as I can tell from the data. Eventually a moderator marked it as a dupe, since there had been a big thread about the product recently.

We did nothing to make it rise. We do that for Launch HNs, a special case described in the FAQ (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html), but otherwise YC startups are subject to the same community whims that everyone else is. We also don't do any special penalizing of negative posts about YC startups (just the opposite, in fact: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...).

You guys need to understand that while you dislike some things about this product, other HN users find it interesting. That appears to be all that's going on here.