@ilikevests teased this in one of the YC office hours. For years people have been scraping the site, building chrome extensions, mobile apps, etc.* It's awesome to see YC/HN encourage this. Being a HUGE community of hackers, I'm curious to see what is made.
*We saw similar things happening early on in the Product Hunt community. We launched an API a few months ago and I wrote more about it here.
@ilikevests that's commendable and shows that you really care about the community. Many others probably wouldn't go through the effort of offering support for "non-official" apps.
@mulligan haha, when Hacker News split out "Show HN" into their own section, people started making comparisons to Product Hunt and making claims that YC was competing with one of its portfolio companies (ie, Product Hunt).
I certainly don't see it this way and I'm not spinning marketing speak. As I told @carmeldea when she interviewed me on the topic, HN and PH have significantly different types of communities and the products that emerge emphasize this. As we expand, we're start to diverge even more.
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