Many thanks for posting this. It's really useful to find guidance on how to do stuff to more effectively engage HN readers with a website or project. Of course

Many thanks for posting this. It's really useful to find guidance on how to do stuff to more effectively engage HN readers with a website or project. Of course, all my efforts so far have failed to engage the sort of people I want to engage. But then I've been here for less than a month - not an excuse, I know - and I am still trying to work out what sort of tone/content a post/comment needs to convey to get people to engage with it. The other problem I'm suffering from is a lack of self-discipline: every day I come to HN with the intention to make an impactful post or comment, but then I click on some links and find myself drawn into articles and conversations that have nothing to do with my work/projects, but are just too interesting in their own right to be ignored ... and suddenly the clock's gone forward another hour and I've done nothing productive! HN is too addictive (but I'm not ready to quit it yet!) I'll not post any links to my projects etc in this comment - maybe I'll try out Lesson 2 tomorrow.