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Not dissing your efforts, but you keep posting your Go Micro stuff, under different account names (chunk) in Show HN and normal threads. 90% of these posts add

Not dissing your efforts, but you keep posting your Go Micro stuff, under different account names (chunk) in Show HN and normal threads. 90% of these posts add nothing and are just duplicates. Maybe add a blog post or something of value instead of the same old link every time.

asim 6y ago
Thanks for your comment. I post a link to the github repo periodically because the project is moving incredibly fast and actively evolving to become something that's fundamentally valuable to those building distributed systems, cloud services and want to build applications with Go using a framework. People also come and go on HN so don't always get a chance to see it or dont' remember the project. I'm also always actively looking for feedback and so appreciate your comments and will look to publish a blog post next time with valuable content as I've done in times past on the blog https://micro.mu/blog/ https://micro.mu/blog/. Otherwise as someone who started this project 5 years ago as his first open source endeavour and was really scared about the reaction from a developer community about the quality of my software or whether there would be any interest at all, I'd hope that positive encouragement is something we advocate for rather than negativity. And I hope others are not disuaded by your comment and actively post on HN to get positive feedback on their project! Otherwise thanks for your comment. Oh and also now being an old man I wanted to use an account with my real name rather than a pseudonym :)
- lugged 6y ago
  Don't apologize for selling yourself. If they're complaining, its working.
  - asim 6y ago
    Thank you :)
  - jbverschoor 6y ago
    Aka spam
- giancarlostoro 6y ago
  > the project is moving incredibly fast and actively evolving Not that I'm hating, but one of the comments above made a valid point that this part of your comment suggests is correct: maybe you should be blogging about progress of the project and gain plenty of eyeballs? One thing I saw that fascinated me is you guys are using mDNS for discovery, I was debating this discovery approach for a small microservices foundation for D but I couldnt even find a decent library so I havent really attempted much work in that approach. I did something that in a sense feels like a micro service architecture entirely with mDNS but in Python, then months later I worked with microservices in Java and it felt so bloated and overcomplicated compared to mDNS.
parhamn 6y ago
If you can only confront someone using a throwaway account, you’re probably being unnecessarily mean. Glad they’re trying to get word out there on what they’re working on. Let the voting do the voting. Thank for your OS work OP, upvote from me. Looks like a cool project!
- asim 6y ago
  Thank you!
- jiofih 6y ago
  I understand the positive viewpoint, but don’t feel it’s in the spirit of HN to repost your own project every couple months. Back in the day even just posting your own stuff (instead of someone else who found it interesting) was frowned upon. IMO a culture of curiosity vs blatant promotion is an asset for this board and should be preserved. I counted at least 26 reposts of go-micro. At what frequency should we just consider it a recurring (free) ad? https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=chuhnk https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=chuhnk
  - city41 6y ago
    When has self promotion here been frowned upon? It’s even officially supported with “Show HN” posts.
  - parhamn 6y ago
    I don’t disagree but that is the exact purpose of forum software: voting, spam detection, etc. The fact that 99.999% of HN users had no idea these posts were made (most have no votes) shows it’s working correctly. On the other hand, to a large extent getting traction on HN is a somewhat random process reliant on a few high momentum votes in the early drop. A lot of the stuff we see on the front page is pushed by voting rings. Anyway given this persons hard work on a project and desire for traction, I’d rather they try/learn to market at the expense of a couple of bytes on a DB and a few scanning eyes on /new. And it seems like this post might be their best yet :)
    - 6y ago
ABS 6y ago
genuinely curious to know why you created a throwaway account solely to post this?
city41 6y ago
That is very common practice on HN. Submitting a link here is a lottery that one rarely wins.

asim 6y ago

Thanks for your comment. I post a link to the github repo periodically because the project is moving incredibly fast and actively evolving to become something that's fundamentally valuable to those building distributed systems, cloud services and want to build applications with Go using a framework. People also come and go on HN so don't always get a chance to see it or dont' remember the project. I'm also always actively looking for feedback and so appreciate your comments and will look to publish a blog post next time with valuable content as I've done in times past on the blog https://micro.mu/blog/ https://micro.mu/blog/. Otherwise as someone who started this project 5 years ago as his first open source endeavour and was really scared about the reaction from a developer community about the quality of my software or whether there would be any interest at all, I'd hope that positive encouragement is something we advocate for rather than negativity. And I hope others are not disuaded by your comment and actively post on HN to get positive feedback on their project! Otherwise thanks for your comment. Oh and also now being an old man I wanted to use an account with my real name rather than a pseudonym :)

lugged 6y ago
Don't apologize for selling yourself. If they're complaining, its working.
- asim 6y ago
  Thank you :)
- jbverschoor 6y ago
  Aka spam
giancarlostoro 6y ago
> the project is moving incredibly fast and actively evolving Not that I'm hating, but one of the comments above made a valid point that this part of your comment suggests is correct: maybe you should be blogging about progress of the project and gain plenty of eyeballs? One thing I saw that fascinated me is you guys are using mDNS for discovery, I was debating this discovery approach for a small microservices foundation for D but I couldnt even find a decent library so I havent really attempted much work in that approach. I did something that in a sense feels like a micro service architecture entirely with mDNS but in Python, then months later I worked with microservices in Java and it felt so bloated and overcomplicated compared to mDNS.

parhamn 6y ago

If you can only confront someone using a throwaway account, you’re probably being unnecessarily mean. Glad they’re trying to get word out there on what they’re working on. Let the voting do the voting. Thank for your OS work OP, upvote from me. Looks like a cool project!

asim 6y ago
Thank you!
jiofih 6y ago
I understand the positive viewpoint, but don’t feel it’s in the spirit of HN to repost your own project every couple months. Back in the day even just posting your own stuff (instead of someone else who found it interesting) was frowned upon. IMO a culture of curiosity vs blatant promotion is an asset for this board and should be preserved. I counted at least 26 reposts of go-micro. At what frequency should we just consider it a recurring (free) ad? https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=chuhnk https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=chuhnk
- city41 6y ago
  When has self promotion here been frowned upon? It’s even officially supported with “Show HN” posts.
- parhamn 6y ago
  I don’t disagree but that is the exact purpose of forum software: voting, spam detection, etc. The fact that 99.999% of HN users had no idea these posts were made (most have no votes) shows it’s working correctly. On the other hand, to a large extent getting traction on HN is a somewhat random process reliant on a few high momentum votes in the early drop. A lot of the stuff we see on the front page is pushed by voting rings. Anyway given this persons hard work on a project and desire for traction, I’d rather they try/learn to market at the expense of a couple of bytes on a DB and a few scanning eyes on /new. And it seems like this post might be their best yet :)
  - 6y ago

ABS 6y ago

genuinely curious to know why you created a throwaway account solely to post this?

city41 6y ago

That is very common practice on HN. Submitting a link here is a lottery that one rarely wins.