I quit my YC alum job

smt88 · on Feb 13, 2015

As a "growth guy", you should know it's irritating when someone (blogger, company, anyone) gets you to click on something and then takes more value from you than you get from them.

Your post was just an ad for yourself and your new startup hiding behind clickbait. A more appropriate title would have been "announcing ArtSpot" or something like that.

If you don't get that you always have to provide more value for the customer/user than you take for yourself, I wouldn't want you as my growth guy.

That said, I found the post creative and your new startup is cool and worthwhile. Just don't clickbait us.

ryanckulp · on Feb 13, 2015

Thanks for the feedback.

I don't think I extracted any value from a reader (besides 30 seconds). No signup required, no ability to buy anything, etc.

However, to your point I originally sent this as a post to my small circle / newsletter.

Perhaps I could/should have removed the ArtSpot link from the bottom for the HN share, however there is still value to the philosophy above the link.

Thanks again for the criticism and support of the new project.

minimaxir · on Feb 13, 2015

The clickbait comes from the fact that you submitted it as "I quit my YC alum job" when the actual article title is "I Quit My Job (Again)".

The addition of the YC alum phrase is irrelevant and is pure clickbait toward the HN audience.

ryanckulp · on Feb 13, 2015

But it's true...?

I quit a job at a YC alum.

The 'Again' is in reference to another post, "I Quit My Job" (ryanckulp.com/i-quit-my-job).

That was a post-mortem I wrote after quitting a job at another company.

minimaxir · on Feb 13, 2015

Yes, but it's irrelevant.

Hacker News policy is to not editorialize the title and submit the original title.