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jayroh | 3 years ago

Apologies for grammar-police'ing here but ...

> Advertising to developers with feels like asking for trouble.

~with~. "Advertising to developers feels like asking for trouble."

Looking forward to reading the rest of this :)

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dqpb|3 years ago

And this amazing piece of text:

> CircleCi is (or was) remarketing withyoutube pre-roll video ads to people who with case study testimonials to users who visited the page but haven’t signed up

nyanpasu64|3 years ago

Remarketing ads towards people based on past browsing history is stalking, full stop.

dev_markepear|3 years ago

Yeah, not my proudest moment -> fixed

tomxor|3 years ago

sounds like they had three cups of tea while writing that sentence.

ccn0p|3 years ago

maybe that was part of their marketing the article to you.

jayroh|3 years ago

Effective! Seriously!

dev_markepear|3 years ago

Thanks for finding those.

Not sure how I fk it up when updating/editing.

But I did...

chatmasta|3 years ago

Is this the nitpick thread? Here’s mine: there’s a horizontal overflow on iOS, so it’s difficult to scroll vertically down the y-axis of the page without accidentally scrolling on the x-axis too. This is a pet peeve of mine and so many websites (my own included at times) do this.

But thanks for sharing your site and this analysis. It’s easy to trust your authority on the matter in the title of this post, considering its current ranking on the front page of HN!

Will you post a follow-up with numbers analyzing today’s success of marketing to developers who market to developers? :)