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Re:Burning money on paid ads for a dev tool – what we've lea... by SOLAR_FIELDS on Friday September 29, 2023 @06:59AM (#37701892)
Yeah, I agree about positive discussion in technical space. Even if it’s just the founder coming on a Reddit thread and shilling their own stuff while still providing value by comparing it to other products.

Example: I was interested in looking more into Dremio the other day but couldn’t really find any good positive technical discussion about it on HN or Reddit so I just… stopped looking into Dremio

Re:Burning money on paid ads for a dev tool – what we've lea... by doggerel on Friday September 29, 2023 @07:08AM (#37701968)
Totally agree. Value is the most important thing if you are going to talk about yourself. It's not even like it's that hard to just try to be excellent to people and to users and share something worthwhile. But time and again, this is where people fall down.

Weirdly, google ads and GA4 are great examples of not providing value and not treating people or users well. And yet they cling on.