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bratfarrar on Oct 13, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Hive: Free unlimited cloud storage for you and you...

If it's free, you're the product.

icebraining on Oct 13, 2014 [–]

HN is free, yet here you are.

marklittlewood on Oct 13, 2014 | [–]

HN is free but you as users are the product. HN is a fantastic marketing tool for Y-combinator. They do a pretty good job of keeping the balance right though.

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