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The photo at the top is almost 10 years old, and was from when BW still had a cofounder. It doesn't any more. He probably doesn't have that office any more.



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That's likely because this is a blast from the past.

Someone mentioned [0] his HN handle up-thread [1] and linked to his complaint in 2015 about spam from BuiltWith [2] where the founder responded with an apology and a way to remove his site from their index.

Once I understood that value of BuiltWith myself, I absolutely felt the same way about Dan's characterisation of BuiltWith as "brilliantly simple and profitable".

0: He likely found about via an email notification from a neat tool he made for just this purpose http://hnreplies.com

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33185733

2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10316060


Yeah I'm wondering why Dan is replying to so many of these comments. I don't get it :P




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