I have nothing against this company but 4 of the 6 comments on this story are by accounts created minutes ago and the other two are by accounts who don't have comments on any other story.

The story itself is not really clear on what the value of this thing is.

Hi ajju,

I wrote the blog post, posted to HN, and then sent out a tweet to my friends which might explain some of the new users. I recognize a couple of the commenters, and FWIW they are entrepreneurs that have technology companies. Here is the tweet: http://twitter.com/chriscera/status/1527260033

The purpose of the article is to point out that the core of the Vuzit viewer is our reliance on web services. Another topic is that anyone could write their own viewer using our web services. The last point is that we only used our published APIs to build our Viewer and our website. My understanding is that nobody else in the marketplace has designed such a technology, and is offering it as a commercial service.

I would love to hear more comments on our Technology and Company. Do you care that it's made from AJAX vs Java vs Flash? Do you care that it's based on Web Services? Would you use it for your website, product, or service?

Any help from the HN community is greatly appreciated! Best, -Chris

Have a hard time believing you. The tweet was 39 minutes ago (as of now) but all the comments were made much before that.

The topic was interesting to an extent, but you could have avoided the spammy comments.

Even without the comments, this story doesn't seem to clear the bar for "interesting to hackers in general". You may have better luck promoting your story on www.reddit.com/r/programming

Hey Chris,

Vuzit itself looks like a useful service. What I am not clear on is what value someone would get from writing their own viewer to embed in their website when that seems to be the hardest task they would be "outsourcing" by using your service. Is it to customize the look and feel (possibly by using a technology like Flash as you suggested)?

It's great that you guys have an API. I'll take a look at it when I need to embed docs on a web page.

Hi ajju,

Thanks for the explanation. You're correct about outsourcing, and this is the #1 reason why we have customers :)

We often get requests to build something specific for a mobile device, customized skins/toolbars, annotation tools, exporting forms, etc. It's impossible for us to do everything, so we changed things around a bit to allow others to build their own interfaces on top of our own.

We will continue to enhance our viewer for our core audience, and we will focus on areas that we believe we can deliver the most value.

I'm hopeful that with our new approach, it will empower other products and services to use 90% of what we have built and add the last 10% themselves.

I hope that clears it up, and thanks for the feedback. -Chris

I would be interested in using this tech, but want the full server tech and docs on my own server. Is this something you license?...or it your SaaS only?

Baiting headline that isn't germane to the article, which includes a product pitch. Why are we even talking about this submission?

anyone know of a good doc viewer, preferably javascript based like this one, that isn't locked down as someone else's SaaS?