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Really cool trick. The title is misleading, it lead to $120k in investment for his company, it did not 'make him 120k'. Also it seems strange that Thomas was

>inundated with emails from his friends telling him to check out our landing page.

when later we learn only 5 people viewed the ad and 2 people clicked. Either way, cool story, the details really do get to me.



> The title is misleading, it lead to $120k in investment for his company, it did not 'make him 120k'.

That's an important distinction. I was wondering what I was missing.


RE "The title is misleading, it lead to $120k in investment for his company, it did not 'make him 120k'"

I agree, semantically it's not a very accurate title. But actually, I'd say that in the long-run the chain of events that resulted from this hack (i.e. me moving to America and then my startup getting funded etc) has led to me personally benefiting much more than $120k. Essentially it was the main cause to making me millions of dollars. The $120k was just the most quantifiable from the initial hack.


The title is a hack. They are hustling for your attention.


yeah..and that's why verbal scores are lower than math ones lol


@dsugarman: to clarify: that was just one of the ad-campaigns targeting Thomas specifically. There were a number of other campaigns targeting his investors etc


We changed the title to be less misleading.


You can change people's submissions? Hmmm. That seems a bit strange.


Moderators (I'm one) change submissions when they break the HN guidelines. Misleading and/or linkbait titles break the guidelines. Probably a good idea to review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html.


I initially thought it was a bug bounty


Even the article title is a hustle! :-)

The takeaway of all this: always push, always aggressive.


People could e-mail Thomas without clicking the link.




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