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The HN community has been a big part of Indie Hackers, even helping me come up with the idea for the site in the first place. I've made a ton of submissions in
by csallen 10y ago
The HN community has been a big part of Indie Hackers, even helping me come up with the idea for the site in the first place.
I've made a ton of submissions in the past 8 months and experimented with various combinations of stories/titles that the HN audience might like, without always being successful. (Probably one out of every 4-5 submissions turned into an angry mob haha)
To speak specifically to your point about the titles, an essential element of Indie Hackers is that I require companies to share revenue numbers, because it really adds context to their stories (although it is certainly clickbaity, too). The mods actually okay'd me adding revenue numbers to submission titles[1], but I've mostly avoided it with recent submissions.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13074125 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13074125
- pc86 10y agoOne has to wonder if 20-25% of your submissions make people angry if you're doing the right thing. But hey you're the one with the acquisition, not me. So great job!
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- Denzel 10y agoWhen the win column is bigger than the loss column, you're a winning team.
- OJFord 10y agoGetting shutout 25% doesn't mean you're winning 75%.
- woodrowbarlow 10y agoThe thing about Arsenal is, they always try and walk it in!
- Mz 10y agoSo, basically, you expect people to be psychic and know in advance what will tick people off. Since you expect that, they are obviously and intentionally up to no good if other people get mad. Because: Logic.
- pc86 10y agoI don't expect that at all. But I'm willing to bet there were common threads in those 20-25% of posts.
- Mz 10y agoAnd you discover those common threads by seeing those reactions. Source: First hand experience going down in flames for issues like being a woman on a predominantly male forum. I did not choose to be a woman for the purpose of pissing off men. I did not join HN for the purpose of pissing off men. There was a learning curve involved in figuring out how to write in a way that was not hollow and was also not just a magnet for drama. I seem to be the highest ranked woman here. My ability to tolerate some heat is probably a factor. I am never sure whether to be amused or disgusted that a culture that so values market disruption has such a cow about socially "disruptive" behavior. The two things are pretty strongly related and neither one is inherently rooted in a desire to piss people off. They both typically grow out of someone thinking they have a better idea.
- raffleslodge 10y agoNice work!