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Ask HN: What do you take in consideration before submitting to HN?
I've recently joined HN and I've posted once since then, in the Show HN category. I didn't receive any feedback which I find normal considering that I am really new here.
This made me wonder: what makes something succeed in HN? I'm sure the quality of the link surely matters a lot (probably the most), but there's other variables that matter a lot too. Things like:
- Title
- Just link vs text with a link
- Time to post
- Karma? (I don't know if it's important for submitting)
- and many others that I don't know of but you surely do!
- hfsktr 10y agoI usually post something if I don't see it posted before and want to say something or think it's techie/cool. I hear that time of day and day of post make a lot of impact if you want the most exposure. For show/ask HN I don't need it to take off and be #1, just a few comments is usually enough to get many insights.
- gjvc 10y agoToo meta
- Philomath 10y agoIs it? I'm really interested in knowing why. Do you call this meta because the question comes from a previous experience of mine? I've never understood the word meta as it can have a lot of different meanings depending of the contest.