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I'd love to hear more about this topic. As someone who's put multiple projects on HackerNews and seen zero comments/upvotes, I'd love to learn what "HN Optimiz
by jamestimmins 6y ago
I'd love to hear more about this topic.
As someone who's put multiple projects on HackerNews and seen zero comments/upvotes, I'd love to learn what "HN Optimization" looks like. Since there's (presumably) no way to use black-hat techniques to get attention, in theory a better post is good for both the community and the OP.
- ilaksh 6y agoIt almost sounds like he either straight-up placed it on the front page himself, and/or had the founders organize a small upvote brigade of employees and family and gave them the best time to post
- yaseer 6y agoActually, we burned ourselves with a friends and family upvote brigade on product hunt (they lopped off a bunch of them suddenly...). We learned from that and did not do this on HN (Engineering team were then only ones to have the post shared, as they're real HN community). I think the algorithms to detect voting rings from dud accounts are not hard.
- jamestimmins 6y agoWhat did the assistance look like? Was it primarily advice?
- dang 6y agoI've answered this in my comment upthread. Let me know if you (or anyone) have additional questions.