1) Posted the ApplyHN on facebook, couple friends got accounts to support me thinking it would help. Accounts with no karma algorithmically don't matter, and they're super easy to spot. Wouldn't spend time on it.
3) Also browsing HN I seem to see a negative atmosphere more and more. This is by far the best forum-style community I came across online. Would like to do my part to help keep it that way. :)
>Posted the ApplyHN on facebook, couple friends got accounts to support me thinking it would help.
On both your Twitter and Facebook accounts you posted: "Comments and upvotes increase our chances of getting selected!" You may not actually have used sockpuppets, but soliciting upvotes to create an artificial buzz around your product is still shady - and it definitely doesn't look good that most of the top-level comments to your Apply HN submission are from those accounts.
Looking through your submissions and replies to your comments, I don't see many comments I would consider "quite rude". I think you're being defensive because someone accused you of acting in bad faith regarding your Apply HN submission, and you posted this thread in an attempt to counter what you feel might be negative PR. You can't control the way people reply to your submissions or comments - the only thing you can do is avoid making a bad situation worse by complaining about it.
> On both your Twitter and Facebook accounts you posted: "Comments and upvotes increase our chances of getting selected!
When Apply HN was first announced, I was concerned that people would be more likely to engage in voting rings because there is now financial incentive. I didn't expect to be correct.
Posted this on facebook, friends chose to support. It's obvious to everyone that accounts with no karma won't get anyone anywhere. But it's nice to have people rooting for you. Even though they didn't happen to be long time Hacker News users.
Thanks for taking the time to check the accounts of commenters. While you're here, would you mind sharing your feedback about Remember? We'd appreciate it!
Edit: Feel free to reach me out via email for the demo.
It's not hard to see all new accounts as HN mark them as green, no need to check. I think it is a bad idea trying to boost your submission artificially. It would be great if I can try it immediately, but I don't care enough about the product to go over email. Good luck with your endeavour.
Conventional desktop and personal search is limited to keywords or exact dates. Humans are not great at remembering those. We're using IBM's Watson, Imagga and our proprietary algorithms together to understand your files. For example; if you took a note about Pablo Neruda, Remember knows he's a poet and you can simply search for your "notes about poetry". If you're looking for a video from the skiing trip you took, just search for that "skiing video from last winter".
Next step for us is to make Remember train itself. Currently you have to teach the faces of people in your life by manually tagging photos in order to organise by face. We're working on using social media data that's already available. Remember will learn your girlfriend's face out-of-the-box because once you connect to Facebook, it will look for your relationships and use your girlfriend's public photos to learn her face all by itself.
All in all we belive this is "intelligent search".
I'm working on Remember, it's a personal search engine. It's like Google Photos for every file type. And while it's great for productivity, it will hopefully serve a bigger purpose, maximising human potential.
We're building a product where a researcher can type "all of my research on cancer" and will see their life's work unveil in front of their eyes. All the papers, notes, voice memos, everything. And maybe, just maybe it'll spark an idea they would've otherwise missed.
I think the biggest way I can benefit society as a 21 year old is to make a product that enables people to do so. I know I can't solve wealth inequality and cancer all by myself, but I might be able to empower the people who will. I believe this is the greatest power of software.
