Some of us folks here did startups before there was Reddit (or HN). Launching for free wasn't a thing. So things turn around.

True. But your competition was in the same boat with you, and now they can downvote your posts into oblivion.

	▲	Messyflame 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		tbh, its worse than that. This one time, I used to post to reddit, without adding a link, and some guy from competition used to reply to comments of people who used to ask for the tool name and link. haha basically i sow the crop and he reaped it.