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0 pointskrishnasangeeth11mo ago0 comments

I posted this

``` Hi ,Congrats on the launch. I built a free iOS app also which has chess puzzles.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/knighty-chess-puzzles/id674524...

Would appreciate feedback. ```

Not sure if that's why it was moved to `stub for off topicness`. I wonder if it is some kind of categorisation logic based on text.

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lucb1e11mo ago· 1 in thread

I'm also wondering if it's an automatic classification. Wouldn't expect that on HN, but the posts in there are so random that it almost must be.

As for that specific comment, to be fair, I could actually understand: promoting your own product in someone else's thread without really saying anything at all about the submission (topic) that was posted could be seen as off-topic. I don't really mind it (I don't think I voted on it), but I could see a human also classify it that way

krishnasangeethOP11mo ago

Yeah , that's fair. More than promotion i was trying to suggest i had also built something similar and kind of understand the product space. It's this dev thing, can't shake it off i guess. But i get what you meant.

Apart from that i have a theory that there is a lot of ML based ranking and classification that is happening at the backend.

nso11mo ago· 1 in thread

Why would you in 2025 only build for iOS?

krishnasangeethOP11mo ago

This was a swift app. I wanted a bit more native feel and didn't go for react native.

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