You're posting interesting information but you keep doing these needless accusations. Of course there are people with financial interests defending the project here. You're literally responding to the creator of the board.
They made a board, they're selling it, they're talking about it's virtues, it's not a bad thing. You suggesting alternatives is also not a bad thing, but you make it sound as if there's something nefarious going on.
How on earth is it not misleading to not lead with the fact you're the creator! I'd have zero issue with talking about their product if they lead with that in the comment!
HN is probably 50% people talking about what they do, yet this is the first time I've ever called someone out for this. Like how hard is it to say "Hey, guy who created the board ... <insert exactly the same comment>".
You shouldn't have to play sleuth checking people's comment histories to get such a simple (but important) disclaimer.
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More weird replies... like where did I say seon posted the actual link? Or remotely imply that?
It doesn't really matter if they're the creator, or someone else financially benefitting from the project. They can just defend the project, and people can form their own opinions. This board is not censored, so everyone can read all comments and make up their own opinions.
I hate that your comments are downvoted so much, when there's good information that would normally be a great contribution, or at least basis for good conversation. If you'd take a slightly less accusatory stance they would've been perfect comments.
I love that they're downvoted so much, the information is easy to find, I have no problem calling out the outright dishonesty of not leading with "I made the thing I'm about to recommend"
And I have no issue being accusatory, in fact let me get more accusatory, how strange is it the other comment that I felt was weird came from a 4 karma account that made it's first comment in 7 years on this post!
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It's funny because there are literally 6 ESP32 variants in my order history from the last month. There's one sitting next to me running the project I'm debugging.
TinyPICO just went from "It's expensive but if I want to have a USB C port, that's the one" to "I will never buy one".
I'm not saying that as some giant "gotcha!" I'm sure there's no shortage of people who will buy them, but I won't be one of them. Not going to support these kinds of games.
I posted - not seon sorry for confusing you. Just really found tinypico with esp32 amazing and wanted to share with HN… sorry again if I caused you stress
They made a board, they're selling it, they're talking about it's virtues, it's not a bad thing. You suggesting alternatives is also not a bad thing, but you make it sound as if there's something nefarious going on.