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Re:Show HN: A bi-directional, persisted KV store that is fas... by Aurornis on Monday March 17, 2025 @12:15PM (#43390053)
The comparison to Redis felt misleading when I realized it was a commercial product.

I'm not sure I like this recent trend of people registering new accounts on HN to use "Show HN" to pitch commercial products.

Show HN is fun to see projects people have been working on and want to share for the good of the community. It's less fun when it's being used as a simple advertising mechanism to drive purchases.

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Re:Show HN: A bi-directional, persisted KV store that is fas... by gkbrk on Monday March 17, 2025 @12:19PM (#43390097)
It's a suitable comparison I think. Redis is also not open-source.

https://github.com/redis/redis/blob/unstable/LICENSE.txt

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Re:Show HN: A bi-directional, persisted KV store that is fas... by old_bayes on Monday March 17, 2025 @12:23PM (#43390140)
As of 12 months ago, sure, but before that Redis was open source for 15 years.
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Re:Show HN: A bi-directional, persisted KV store that is fas... by pvg on Monday March 17, 2025 @12:30PM (#43390221)
Show HN is not limited to open source projects.
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Re:Show HN: A bi-directional, persisted KV store that is fas... by Aurornis on Monday March 17, 2025 @01:18PM (#43390679)
I never said it was. Seeing green accounts (just registered) doing nothing other than promote products doesn't feel consistent with the spirit of Show HN.
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Re:Show HN: A bi-directional, persisted KV store that is fas... by pvg on Monday March 17, 2025 @03:12PM (#43391799)
There's nothing wrong with green accounts doing Show HNs, really.
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