350 'I Would Pay' Comments on Hacker News, 30 Days: Zero Actual Buyers

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A systematic 30-day scan of Hacker News comments using the Algolia API tracked 350 unique instances of phrases like 'willing to pay' and 'take my money' from 323 distinct authors. After deduplication, only 26 of those authors had a publicly listed email address in their profiles. Of all 350 comments, just one contained a concrete, actionable product request — for a bulk Wayback Machine domain downloader. The remaining 349 comments were largely rhetorical, used in arguments about pricing, streaming services, or ads rather than expressing genuine purchase intent. The findings suggest that 'I would pay' on public forums is almost never a real signal of customer demand.

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