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Simple observation - you needed either to point to a page that explained the problem your potential users have that you are solving, or you needed to do that in
by RiderOfGiraffes 16y ago
Simple observation - you needed either to point to a page that explained the problem your potential users have that you are solving, or you needed to do that in a comment to your own submission. People could easily have clicked on it and just thought - "Huh - can't see what this does that's different" - and closed.
It doesn't do anything special for me because I do my HN borwsing on a very elderly machine that can't understand anything new or fancy. I may actually be mis-interpreting the site because it degrades gracefully and I don't see anything special - maybe it looks completely different on a modern browser.
But you need to get people to recognise their pain - then take it away. Your submission here didn't do that.
- geuis 16y agoThanks ROG. Good advice. I took a little extra effort to make sure hnlive matches the native style as closely as possible, just without tables. Basically every 10 seconds or so, if there are changes in votes/comments/position the page updates. Its built on node.js and uses socket.io to maintain the open connection to the backend.
- RiderOfGiraffes 16y agoFor HN, a story of what you've done, what technology you used, what problems you had, and how you solved them, is at least as interesting as the product itself. Then people might look at it for a bit to evaluate what you've done, and maybe get hooked. From what you say, I would consider using it, if only my browser supported it. Hope that helps.