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		appleiigs on May 2, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I've spent the last two years building a new email... Then don’t refer anyone. Or maybe only send to your friends who a new email client would interest? Is “hey, saw this on HN, this looks interesting” really going to hurt your reputation? He’s a dev trying to market, that’s all.

c0smic on May 2, 2018 [–]

I was going to say this.

It's totally optional to invite more people, so if it goes against your ethical views, just don't.

hedora on May 3, 2018 | [–]

Yeah, but by engaging in this behavior, the dev has convinced me this whole thing is click spam, so I’m done evaluating it before I even downloaded it.

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