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Don't take it the wrong way, but the intention was to keep our link visible for a little bit of time. Making a ready-to-manufacture hardware project takes sign
by ecesena 7y ago
Don't take it the wrong way, but the intention was to keep our link visible for a little bit of time.
Making a ready-to-manufacture hardware project takes significant more effort than just writing a blog post or recording a video.
Links posted in HN tend to disappear in a matter of minutes from the new and even if you hit the front page hardly anything remains visible for more than a day.
When we launched Solo, our Show HN was taken down because Show HN should be something people can interact with and crowdfunding was not acceptable. We learned it the hard way and this time around we respected the policy and didn't create a Show HN. (For comparison, I'm just looking at Show HN now and there are video projects, that I can't try nor interact with.)
If projects like Solo/Somu, open source, security, and implementing a real-world applications like FIDO2 don't qualify as interesting for a hacker community, I'm more that happy to respect that and not waste anyone's time posting. But if they do, like I think, they should have a way to be showcased properly.
- Tomte 7y agoStill, don't do it. It's against the unwritten rules. You don't get to game the system. Solo is interesting to the HN audience. But not more interesting than everything else. If you truly believe you deserve special treatment, mail hn@ycombinator.com. They can boost visibility in other ways, although I doubt they would do so here. And Show HNs do not disappear quite as quickly.
- ecesena 7y agoPlease re-read my comment, you clearly didn't: 1) Show HN can't be used because there are written rules that we're respecting 2) We don't need any special treatment 3) There's no gaming involved. There's just a form with 2 options and we chose the most favorable for us, explaining why I'm afraid I can't cope with unwritten rules, because there's no way for me to guess them.