On: How we got our first 100 paying customers

[timClicks]

If this really is a bot, I'm just astonished. Well done to the crew behind this.

[slazaro → timClicks]

I'm skeptical. The phrase "marketing channel" does not appear verbatim on the article. I'd say it either has really good NLP or there's a human somewhere.

[Geee → timClicks]

There's probably some 'selection bias'. I think they might run the bot on every article, but post the summary only if it matches well.

[amelius → timClicks]

If this is a bot, then why isn't it running on at least all of the front-page HN stories?

But anyway, please keep posting :)

[toyg → timClicks]

I expect they manually write the summary, then let the "bot" calculate wordcount and post, i.e. like a command: "tldr Company did not find a marketing channel. Company relies on word of mouth."