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I didn’t mean this as an affront to the HN community, or as a criticism of Show HN. That said, after you work on a startup for a while, getting traffic/feedback
by karjaluoto 11y ago
I didn’t mean this as an affront to the HN community, or as a criticism of Show HN. That said, after you work on a startup for a while, getting traffic/feedback on it is important.
I check HN daily, mostly by skimming the homepage. This happens on the toilet, before I start my day—and, while laying in bed with my son at night, while he falls asleep. I find a lot of good reading here.
But, I have to admit that I found it more useful (personally) 8 years ago. I’m not quite sure why. There seems to be an ebb and flow of content from one season to the next. Sometimes it’s overly technical for me (I’m not a developer), or it’s so unrelated that I don’t feel compelled to read.
My hunch is that this is representative of a community that has simply reached a certain size. I don’t mean that HN was better when it was smaller, but I certainly found more pleasure in it then.
Back to the point though, I don’t want to devalue anything that YC, or the community, is doing here (nor do I mean to take anything away).
Instead, I just had a thought pop into my head that maybe there should be other ways to get founders feedback on what they’re doing. As we’d already built Chapp, I figured it couldn’t hurt to toss it out there.