This entire HN submission was a publicity stunt that should be flagged, and the OP's HN account has been used exclusively for self-promotion, in violation of the guidelines. Sadly, the OP's stunt worked, because the app is now in the Mac App Store top 25 paid overall in the US. The "good news" is that this ranking is not as lucrative as you might expect.
I like this theory, scary though.
I totally get the skepticism about authenticity in the AI era. I appreciate you raising this point.
We are getting at similar things through different routes.
What does it mean if someone can launch an app they see on the app store, just by dropping its description into an LLM?
But in that case there was at least a tell-tale sign: I’d used em-dashes. In this case, correct me if I’m wrong, but there’s really no reason to think this post is written by AI. It’s just a long post, that’s all. The sort we should be encouraging!
I still maintain that reporting this to dang and moving on is the best strategy. It’s hurtful to have your comments pored through and every flaw or inconsistency pointed out in the hope of identifying whether they were written with AI or not.
I am a little too self promotion oriented on this platform, but until recently I thought that was kinda the point of this website and how it was different from the alternatives.
It’s like the teacher who stays up all night grading papers, giving thoughtful feedback and carefully reading each one, only to learn most were generated by AI.
And yes I know about dead internet theory. But it’s posts like these that really make me miss the 90s and early 2000s where the learning was real and so were the people.