Tell HN: AngelList told my employer that I'd updated my profile
I had big problems with the &quot;Angel List&quot; web site, because it was extremely flakey and appeared to be a typical piece of garbage that some dime-a-dozen huckster with very little experience had just thrown together after watching the Ruby on Rails Make Your Own Trendy Dot Com Crud Web Site in 10 Minutes screencast.<p>Major features were totally broken. Many things about the design were devoid of thought and just haphazardly thrown together, as if I was using a mock-up that was nowhere near ready for prime time. Obviously whoever implemented it and runs it had no intention of using it themselves, and puts no time into maintaining the site or supporting the &quot;customers&quot; (who are actually the product). The only &quot;design&quot; apparent was in the most shallow surface details and of the least meaningful kind.<p>Their support is absolutely non-existent. I heard nothing back from them whatsoever, after sending several emails. Lights are on but nobody&#x27;s home. It has the feel of yet another ghost town scam web site run by a sociopathic all-talk-no-chops frat boy &quot;idea man&quot; who long ago went on to something else after pissing off and driving away all their developers who worked for free on the promise of equity, and is now letting it run on autopilot. Too many self described &quot;Serial Hacktrepeneurs&quot;, not enough programmers.<p>Because I encountered so many problems that I have no control over but should, it&#x27;s an embarrassment to be listed with so many glitches that I am unable to work around, which cause investors to see my profile in such a haphazard state. Their carelessness makes it look like I&#x27;m the one who&#x27;s careless.<p>I hope Silicon Valley does an episode parodying AngelList, or at least somebody writes some fanfic about it. [1]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fanfiction.net&#x2F;tv&#x2F;Silicon-Valley&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fanfiction.net&#x2F;tv&#x2F;Silicon-Valley&#x2F;</a>