Tell HN: Aden, A YC company, is growth hacking by luring devs with paid work
I received the following message on YC's workatastartup program
> Looking to Hire Contributors for an Open-Source Project
> Hi [Name], I just reviewed your experience and background, and I think you might be a good fit for our open-source project (github.com/adenhq/hive). It’s a development platform for self-evolving AI agents that run business processes autonomously.
> If you’re interested, please star, fork, and watch the repo, and please create issues and submit pull requests. We’ll review your contributions and follow up with a contract. We pay $25–$55/hour, paid weekly.
> Best,
> Vincent
Today I saw their repo on GitHub's trending repositories page. I checked their star history, and the repo star count more than doubled in the past day.
https://www.star-history.com/#adenhq/hive&type=date&legend=top-left I received the same message. It's obvious they're using AI to send out these messages. When I replied to the initial message I received a message with text that got repeated three times in the same message I signed up in the workatastartup site yesterday and today I got this exact email. Really suspicious... > please create issues and submit pull requests. We’ll review your contributions and follow up with a contract. Getting @shitoberfest vibes...