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Ask HN: What can I do to gain trust here?

8 pointsby loupereiraover 10 years ago
What can I do to ensure the HN community that Webcam Blocker Pro is a legitimate program I developed and not a virus or malicious software?

7 comments

MalcolmDiggsover 10 years ago
You&#x27;re starting off by trying to prove a negative. (You&#x27;re trying to prove that by using this product something <i>wont</i> happen).<p>Proving a negative is in many cases a fool&#x27;s errand. In your particular case you&#x27;re using a logical fallacy called &quot;argumentum ad ignorantiam&quot; (Asserting that something is true simply because it has not yet been proven false).<p>Anyone with a math background, a technical background, a law background, or or a formal-logic background will automatically feel uncomfortable with the kind of claims you&#x27;re making. Though they may not be able to articulate <i>why</i> they don&#x27;t trust you, I&#x27;d wager that&#x27;s the underlying cause.<p>To gain trust, you&#x27;d need to restructure your offering, brand, and marketing efforts in a logically valid and sound way. Think about what you <i>can</i> prove logically; don&#x27;t overstep or use hyperbole, and err on the side of conservative claims. Then people might warm up.
DanBCover 10 years ago
You bought an existing website and an existing product.<p>You scrapped to original software and re-created it. You don&#x27;t appear to have done much to the website.<p>The website is toxic. It is full of signals of a poor quality product. I mentioned some of these in your other thread.<p>Doing a web search for the product returns a bunch of really suspicious links.<p><a href="http://topdownloadebook.siterubix.com/download-webcam-blocker-pro-webcam-blocker-pro-pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;topdownloadebook.siterubix.com&#x2F;download-webcam-blocke...</a><p><a href="http://farmhousekitchen.us/blog/2014/08/20/webcam-blocker-pro-specail-prices/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;farmhousekitchen.us&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2014&#x2F;08&#x2F;20&#x2F;webcam-blocker-pr...</a><p><a href="http://www.cbengine.com/id/tg1264" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cbengine.com&#x2F;id&#x2F;tg1264</a><p>These links are toxic and harm your reputation.<p>The clickbank stuff -the footer on the website especially- is weird and makes me trust the product less.<p>And then you make extraordinary claims that are not true.<p>I know that a single person working alone has not created software that is impossible for hackers or government agents to defeat.
minimaxirover 10 years ago
You already got the necessary feedback in the thread which prompted this question: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8233318" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=8233318</a><p>Don&#x27;t make claims that you can&#x27;t justify.
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powatomover 10 years ago
Your problem is that you&#x27;re making some absolutely incredible claims without any evidence to back them up. Prove to me that your product does what you&#x27;re saying it does, and then maybe I&#x27;ll trust you. How does it work? Why do you believe that your solution is effective? What guarantees do you provide?<p>At the end of the day, HN is full of very technically minded people, including security experts, programmers, and researchers. You&#x27;re not going to be able to sell to these people without seriously backing up your claims.
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loupereiraover 10 years ago
What if I was giving the product away for free? Would the reaction would have been different?
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loupereiraover 10 years ago
Thank you everyone for all your valuable input and feedback.
atmosxover 10 years ago
Open the Source.-