That comment has been unfairly misread over the years. He wasn't being dismissive, he was trying to help them with their YC application (that's what "app" meant on HN in 2007).
Here is how BrandonM responded after Drew replied: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9479. If that's a prototypical HN dismissal, we're in the sixth sphere of Paradiso.
Here is how BrandonM responded after Drew replied: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9479. If that's a prototypical HN dismissal, we're in the sixth sphere of Paradiso.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27068148
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23229275
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