Hey sorry about that, it's been a while ago, we didn't know that emails on Github were not allowed to be used (since I received many emails from startups that way). We apologized to our users and never did this again

I don't know anything about this company and what it may or may not have done, but to be clear, the link just says that when you star their github repo, they add your email address to their marketing list.

I think that sucks, but it's certainly not what I thought of when I read your one-liner (which implies that they harvest and abuse your actual recorded data).

You're offended by that?

Have you ever founded a company and tried to find paying customers?

You'd probably be offended if I sent you a cute 90's era AOL CD with our software on it.

OP: I wouldn't be offended if you emailed me in this way. Ignore the naysayers. This is perfectly kosher.

In fact, I'm going to check out your company in depth just because of this pearl clutching.

Keep building and don't let naysayers tear you down over something not even slightly evil. (Venomous attacks are more evil than this, frankly.)

I am not surprised. YC hasn't been the same since Gary Tan. I don't want to be associated with it or launch anything through it.