Scammy Startup Websites
Comments questioning the legitimacy of a startup's landing page, citing broken links, missing privacy policies, no company info, fake testimonials, and overall sketchy design suggesting it's a scam or phishing site.
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Looks like a scam. Privacy and terms of service links don't work. Is this a real company?
I thought that site used to be reputable but sounds like a shill.
I'm genuinely wondering at this point whether we should flag this post and submit the site as a suspected phishing exercise to the major search engines. There are no verifiable contact details, terms, privacy policy or other expected information on it. It's presumably collecting a lot of sensitive personal information in a dubious way. The guy allegedly submitting this post seems to have an HN account that he only ever uses for self promotion and it appears he has never replied to any
- Images are broken.- No idea what product actually is useful for.- Video only shows a corner of the board and doesn't make clear its use case.- No contact info except an email address that appears to be a generic placeholder for the template, because 'freesearch' isn't obviously the name of your company, though I see upon deep inspection it's the name of your youtube channel which has no published content (only the one unlisted video).- email host is free se
Looks great. Do you have any plans of not being misused for fake shops? Just got hit by one recently.
Looks like astroturfing for fake spot. Why is fake spot reliable? Nothing on the page seemed convincing to me.
Who are the people behind this project? There’s no information about the company building this, no privacy policy/tos on the website. Looks like a scam the way it is right now.
The site is quite ridiculous, so you are probably right about it being some dummy company.
The landing page is so busy that I don't trust this to be legit.
The website doesn't say who is behind this. How can a user trust it?