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Ask HN: Is invite only product allowed in Show HN?
I'm wondering because the rules says that sign up pages can't be tried out so they're not Show HN. Invite only can be tried out but only to a limited amount of people. In addition to that, we have a demo product in our site but being able to use it for your own is the invite only part.
- ddtaylor 8y agoInteresting idea to provide a discussion platform that prevents trolling and toxic discussion. What makes you different than other platforms like Disqus? They claim to be working on this: https://blog.disqus.com/first-steps-to-curbing-toxicity https://blog.disqus.com/first-steps-to-curbing-toxicity Looking forward to your response and hope the best for your product.
- rmmmp 8y agoWoah I'm surprised you can predict what I was hiding from this Ask HN post. That's the power of Google I guess haha. Anyways, I'd prefer to answer that when I do a Show HN post so we wouldn't go out of context from the topic.
- grzm 8y ago> "That's the power of Google I guess haha." Helps when you put it in your profile.
- rmmmp 8y agoOhh wow. I totally forgot about that. :P
- ddtaylor 8y agoMy advice would be ask for forgiveness instead of permission. While I don't exactly like it, I have seen links that were gated in various ways from paywalls to invite only. I don't have any sources on hand - who keeps a list of such things?
- KajMagnus 8y agoHow interesting. I'm developing a discussion system, and something that helps preventing trolling & toxic things = could be useful. So I hope you post to HN even if the try-it-out is invitation only. There's also https://www.perspectiveapi.com/ https://www.perspectiveapi.com/ b.t.w., I guess you know about it? Agreed with @ddtaylor that asking for forgiveness, is the good approach, from your point of view. From your point of view, if you post a Show HN and it gets deleted because there're some invite-only things — then that seems like harmless to me? I don't think you'll get banned or something like that. You can just try again a bit later, with a real demo? instead of invite-only. You mentioned there's a demo already? Then to me sounds like enough for a Show HN? Would you like to please email me when you post to HN? Email in my profile Edit: Ok it's in your profile (I read in another comment). And it wasn't exactly what I thought it was. Anyway, if you have time, would still be interesting if you sent an email.
- troydavis 8y agoPer https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html, no: > If your work isn't ready for people to try out yet, please don't do a Show HN. Once it's ready, come back and do it then.
- tedmiston 8y agoWhat are you "showing HN" if we can't actually try it? I think it would be ok if you had that but provided a special link to HN that bypassed the invite system.
- ezekg 8y agoI did a Show HN when my product was in private beta, so I don’t see why you couldn’t. People post landing pages all the time, attempting to validate an idea.