Hacker News new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit login

Do what I did: post to Facebook, and put in your message that you're testing it out and this is just a test post, not an endorsement. Then wait for the email (mine took ~30 mins).

Do this at late at night (like I did) and delete your FB post after you get the email (like I did).

Alternately, you can go the whole +hn route described below. It took longer than the FB route, but at least you're not participating in marketing of a sight-unseen web service.




I think the point is that asking a user to do this (even though they can get around it) is offensive. "Hey spam your friends and we'll give you free stuff" is starting to get too common.




Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: