HN Job re-post w/ comments: YC W11 Startup Social Net, 20M Pageviews in 6 Wks...

20 points by vegashacker ↗ HN
Submitted for discussion of "YC W11 Startup Social Network, 20M Pageviews in 6 Wks, Hiring Hackers/Designers" (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2020416).

I was surprised to see that there's apparently a social networking startup that's stealth and at the same time is getting 1 million pageviews a day after just 6 weeks. I wouldn't have guessed the combination of those two properties was possible.

It's probably not--surely this company can't be fully stealth. So what is it?

Update: Interesting that this was killed. (I'll admit I was going for a bit of subversiveness with the post.) Wanted to note ericd's comment below though--"stealth" may have been the wrong word to use. They might just not have wanted the info in their post to be publicly known information about their company.

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Clickable: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2020416

Some Google searching turns up one strong contender (hint "palo alto" and "location based"), but I edited this to take the actual name out. If it's them, and they have good reasons for remaining anonymous right now, then so be it.

I get kinda peeved that they don't allow discussion on posting by YC guys. Seems more craigslist-y and less HN-y. Several times I've wanted to remake the posting as you did, but was too afraid that I'd piss off someone at YC.
Where does it say stealth? Maybe the lack of disclosure is just due to them not wanting to reveal they're affiliated with YC right now, or that they don't want to reveal to the press that they've got those kinds of traffic numbers?
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It is a bit funny that the fastest growing social network is in stealth mode. "Connect the Unconnected world around you"? Facebook for Microbes?
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"Higher virality than Facebook at its fastest growth stage." You can't say that and not give us a URL.