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Interesting that so many of the top sites are "individual". I always thought that self promotion was shunned on places like HN, but I guess if you do it in the
by downandout 9y ago
Interesting that so many of the top sites are "individual". I always thought that self promotion was shunned on places like HN, but I guess if you do it in the "right" way, it can be a successful tactic.
- grzm 9y agoThe articles for those sites aren’t necessarily being submitted by the people who run them. In most it’s likely others who found the content useful. I suppose if you squint anything you post on your own site is self-promotion, but that’s not the impression I get from your comment. Am I mistaken?
- downandout 9y agoThey all include somewhat useful articles, but some of them (once you arrive) are also quite self promoting. I think the odds are quite slim that this many others randomly stumbled across articles on obscure domains and submitted them repeatedly, so yes I think the owners of them are in many cases responsible for them having been submitted to HN. But I wasn’t actually disparaging any of them, or suggesting anything inappropriate has happened. I guess I’m just surprised that HN as a community, with such a high degree of anti-commercialism on the site, has given these sites this much exposure.
- jnbiche 9y agoSelf-promotion is specifically encouraged on HN, as long as you're promoting a high-quality topic that is of interest to hackers, and as long as it's not done in a spammy manner. There's even the "Show HN" section specifically for self-promotion.