You already posted a marketing blurb for your competing startup in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30377349. Continuing to do that is excessive and distasteful, so please don't.
Because this is a YC startup's launch thread, I would normally hesitate to post like this (we moderate less when a YC startup is involved: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...), but I would say (and have said) the same thing in non-YC launch threads, and something about this case feels worse than usual.
Launch threads are a bit different from regular threads in this respect. It's of course fine for users to sincerely ask how the launching thing is different from existing things; it's borderline for a competitor to post a link to their thing, depending on how they do it; but to try to divert discussion to one's own thing is just bad manners.
Because this is a YC startup's launch thread, I would normally hesitate to post like this (we moderate less when a YC startup is involved: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...), but I would say (and have said) the same thing in non-YC launch threads, and something about this case feels worse than usual.
Launch threads are a bit different from regular threads in this respect. It's of course fine for users to sincerely ask how the launching thing is different from existing things; it's borderline for a competitor to post a link to their thing, depending on how they do it; but to try to divert discussion to one's own thing is just bad manners.
I've detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30375868 and marked it off topic.