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Ouch. I'm not really selling anything, just thought people who write for this audience might be interested in what I had found out through the process. Why does
by ryanwaggoner 16y ago
Ouch. I'm not really selling anything, just thought people who write for this audience might be interested in what I had found out through the process. Why does the HN crowd have such an issue with people promoting themselves even slightly? If the content is good and people like it, they'll vote it up...I don't see the problem with trying to fit your product to the HN market.
Edit: in fairness, this blog post title was too sensational, so I've changed the HN post to be less so. Unintentional, but still, my apologies.
- grandalf 16y agoSorry about the negativity. I actually didn't read your post that made it to the same page for the same reason (overly sensational title). If you look at Digg or Reddit they are essentially just bit lists of overly sensational titles. One thing I like about HN is that we manage to mostly avoid that... and titles are generally fairly informative. I typically only downvote/flag stories that have overly sensational titles, b/c I view them as bait for the more cursory of readers, who don't generally make thoughtful comments b/c their attention span is calibrated toward sensational, dopamine trigger words. I've found that if a post makes it to the HN front page it's generally quality reading, so a sensational title actually provides a signal not to read it.
- ryanwaggoner 16y agoYou found "Why I stopped building Facebook apps for clients" to be an overly sensational title? What would you have called it?
- grandalf 16y agoI'm not saying sensational titles aren't great for marketing. I think something like "My Thoughts on Facebook's Apps platform API"