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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Sample Comments

8organicbits May 24, 2024 View on HN

Looks like a scam. Privacy and terms of service links don't work. Is this a real company?

tutuncommon Sep 22, 2021 View on HN

I thought that site used to be reputable but sounds like a shill.

Silhouette Feb 2, 2014 View on HN

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

droithomme Oct 19, 2016 View on HN

- 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

dayjaby Sep 12, 2021 View on HN

Looks great. Do you have any plans of not being misused for fake shops? Just got hit by one recently.

justonepost Dec 20, 2017 View on HN

Looks like astroturfing for fake spot. Why is fake spot reliable? Nothing on the page seemed convincing to me.

pashariger Nov 14, 2021 View on HN

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.

biggfoot May 17, 2012 View on HN

The site is quite ridiculous, so you are probably right about it being some dummy company.

baliex Apr 13, 2018 View on HN

The landing page is so busy that I don't trust this to be legit.

somerandomness Jun 16, 2015 View on HN

The website doesn't say who is behind this. How can a user trust it?