This is HK, self promotion is a core part of the ethos. The whole place is very natural selection-ee, survival of the fittest, and so on... It isn't like Reddit where self-promotion is seen negatively.
I mean you'll often have two or three startups posting around here all working in the same thing. So there is going to be self promotion.
In my view the above post isn't unprofessional. Why? Because they didn't criticise or pile-on BrowserStack, they simply said: "Want an alternative? We have an alternative! <link>."
Is it self-promotion? Yes. Is that wrong? No. It is unprofessional? Also no. Could they have been unprofessional? Yes: if they had criticised BrowserStack DIRECTLY in public.
Also you're a first-post throw away. Do you work for BrowserStack by any chance?
I mean you'll often have two or three startups posting around here all working in the same thing. So there is going to be self promotion.
In my view the above post isn't unprofessional. Why? Because they didn't criticise or pile-on BrowserStack, they simply said: "Want an alternative? We have an alternative! <link>."
Is it self-promotion? Yes. Is that wrong? No. It is unprofessional? Also no. Could they have been unprofessional? Yes: if they had criticised BrowserStack DIRECTLY in public.
Also you're a first-post throw away. Do you work for BrowserStack by any chance?