<story><title>AWS documentation is now open source and on GitHub</title><url>https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-documentation-is-now-open-source-and-on-github/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>samschooler</author><text>Then again, Y Combinator makes no direct money off HN. AWS’ docs, if they are quality directly impacts their profit because more people can use their services more easily.</text></item><item><author>always_good</author><text>Just think of all the uncompensated value you&amp;#x27;ve given Y Combinator every time you&amp;#x27;ve left a quality comment on their forum.</text></item><item><author>jjeaff</author><text>Brilliant. Let unpaid volunteers fix and update the documentation for your proprietary  systems  so you don&amp;#x27;t have to pay someone to do it.&lt;p&gt;Can someone explain to me why people will inevitably put in countless hours of free labor for Amazon here?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TAForObvReasons</author><text>YC does two things that aren&amp;#x27;t directly making money but are definitely helping their portfolio companies:&lt;p&gt;1) Special ad positions with front-page placement (currently #22 is &amp;quot;Willing (YC S15) Is Hiring a UI &amp;#x2F; UX Designer&amp;quot; &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;willing.com&amp;#x2F;designer&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;willing.com&amp;#x2F;designer&lt;/a&gt; , a privileged post that can&amp;#x27;t be voted or commented on)&lt;p&gt;2) The moderators can and sometimes do intervene by removing certain comments that are critical of YC companies.&lt;p&gt;Comments make the forum more interesting to the community, which increases eyeballs and makes the front page spots more valuable.  And shaping the discourse helps with damage control when necessary.</text></comment>
<story><title>AWS documentation is now open source and on GitHub</title><url>https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-documentation-is-now-open-source-and-on-github/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>samschooler</author><text>Then again, Y Combinator makes no direct money off HN. AWS’ docs, if they are quality directly impacts their profit because more people can use their services more easily.</text></item><item><author>always_good</author><text>Just think of all the uncompensated value you&amp;#x27;ve given Y Combinator every time you&amp;#x27;ve left a quality comment on their forum.</text></item><item><author>jjeaff</author><text>Brilliant. Let unpaid volunteers fix and update the documentation for your proprietary  systems  so you don&amp;#x27;t have to pay someone to do it.&lt;p&gt;Can someone explain to me why people will inevitably put in countless hours of free labor for Amazon here?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>justicezyx</author><text>AWS does makes no direct money off documentations either.&lt;p&gt;Engineers generally have a natural tendancy to fix things, and documentaitons are worth fixing. And it also helps their future work.</text></comment>