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Ask HN: Posting on new releases

1 points by polyvertex 11y ago

Hi! I posted a news on HN a week ago about a small project of mine getting publicly released for the first time. No business involved. Audience is limited but helps me to improve the application by submitting suggestions or asking questions following a logic I didn't think about before. It is a good thing for the project so I would like to keep spreading the word. Would it be considered as spam if I keep posting here about new releases, say a couple of times a month?

jcr 11y ago
The rules for "Show HN:" posts say you should not keep posting new versions. https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html > "New features and upgrades ("Foo 1.3.1 is out") generally aren't substantive enough to be Show HNs. A major overhaul is probably ok."
- polyvertex 11y ago
  The question was not much about "new release" posting, more about spreading the word about a new project. And news could be written in a more "creative" way. I asked the original question because a one shot news will not necessary gets "enough" attention, depending on the time or the day it has been posted for example. Also I've read that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11237340 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11237340
  - jcr 11y ago
    I think you misread the comment from Dan (dang); he clearly qualified his statement with, "in about a year." Which is the same as stated in the HN FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html >"Are reposts ok?" >"If a story has had significant attention in the last year or so, we kill reposts as duplicates. If not, a small number of reposts is ok." If you want to spread the word about your project, you'll be better served by doing something interesting with it, blogging about the interesting thing you did, and submitting said blog post to HN. As long as you can keep doing interesting things with your project, you'll keep getting plenty of attention here.
    - polyvertex 11y ago
      Fair enough, thanks for taking the time to answer

1 points by polyvertex 11y ago

jcr 11y ago

The rules for "Show HN:" posts say you should not keep posting new versions. https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html > "New features and upgrades ("Foo 1.3.1 is out") generally aren't substantive enough to be Show HNs. A major overhaul is probably ok."

polyvertex 11y ago
The question was not much about "new release" posting, more about spreading the word about a new project. And news could be written in a more "creative" way. I asked the original question because a one shot news will not necessary gets "enough" attention, depending on the time or the day it has been posted for example. Also I've read that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11237340 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11237340
- jcr 11y ago
  I think you misread the comment from Dan (dang); he clearly qualified his statement with, "in about a year." Which is the same as stated in the HN FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html >"Are reposts ok?" >"If a story has had significant attention in the last year or so, we kill reposts as duplicates. If not, a small number of reposts is ok." If you want to spread the word about your project, you'll be better served by doing something interesting with it, blogging about the interesting thing you did, and submitting said blog post to HN. As long as you can keep doing interesting things with your project, you'll keep getting plenty of attention here.
  - polyvertex 11y ago
    Fair enough, thanks for taking the time to answer