Come on, isn’t it just a bit not ideal to go point by point in someone’s yComb announcement thread (which is sort of a happy event because historically a lot did cool things and grew really hot) re: someone else’s biz? Maybe you do a showHN the other company if it’s so differentiated to let these guys just starting out try to put their message out to the world.

Sorry didn’t mean to word that negatively btw. On mobile not at home.

I think it’s pretty normal for this to happen on launch and show HN posts (just like it’s normal for a fellow HN user to tell you that your startup can be cloned in a day.) We’re an odd bunch. :)

We don't usually let people change the subject to their own thing in someone else's launch thread. It's boorish.

We're a little less active about it in YC launch threads, though, because of the first principle of HN moderation: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu.... That's why I haven't said anything in the places this has happened in today's thread.

Fair enough. Though I don’t agree that discussing or mentioning a competitor is changing the subject, especially when that competitor addresses some of the issues originally mentioned.

Thank you! Pundit is awesome, they did such a great job with it and we drew a lot of inspiration from it.

We're heavily focusing on adoption of the open source product right now for helping developers with application authorization. We do currently charge for things like support + consulting, but in the future we're planning on providing additional functionality through a service that would be more on the operational/security side.