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Funny you say that about HN, for a lot of us veterans on HN, we argue the exact same thing happened to HN.

HN today has deteriorated, what used to be a liberal and open minded place to explore new ideas, it has become a self promoting (especially if you are YC fam) to a large degree, and heavy policing.

With the rise of cryptocurrency I saw a lot more shill accounts manipulating comments and such.

So many of us have left HN, maybe there's something like HN out there?

This is just sick. How the fuck do these priests live with themselves?

not sure why your comment was also downvoted.

it seems that anything that points to a reality that doesn't paint China favorably are downvoted instantly here and reddit.

given SV's willingness to take Chinese money, I'm not surprised if see winnie the pooh banned on HN.

I tried freelancing for a while but it really didn't make economic sense.

there are so many other ways to make money that unless you absolutely enjoy getting reamed by scope creeps and coding, freelancing is definitely not it.

Given, there's not much an engineer can do.

Never heard of Brave until now and never going to use it in the future.

getting paid for integration?

1) create a popular open source product

2) give it away, building market share and awareness

3) shake down corporations making money from your open source product in the form of "licensing & maintenance agreement*

4) Trickle down effect on non corporate users who in turn feed back into the loop by performing QA and community support.

I personally believe this is the future of software, at least someone who is competing against VC funded proprietary entities looking to IPO and not really give a shit about the product that brought them in a position to raise money.

What do you guys think? This is just my opinion of course downsides to this model.

One major downside of openin the doors to everybody is you get a ton of noises. People who shouldn't be using it complaining and it's always tricky to manage, especially when people feel entitled to it as it is free.

An argument to this noise is that any noise is better than no noise, meaning any type of engagement good or bad is considered a plus for the app, to discover new shit

This. It's all about supply and demand, stuffing keywords to game the SERP is a short term tactic.

If you have content that people dig, Google will automatically send you more traffic.

If you have mediocre run of the mill startup content blog, you are shit out of luck because you are doing the same thing everyone else who failed is doing