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Well, I'm just curious why then it got hidden in Show HN section, since I definitely didn't try to spam with many posts. I waited for a week on purpose. So is

by Akcium 6y ago

Well, I'm just curious why then it got hidden in Show HN section, since I definitely didn't try to spam with many posts. I waited for a week on purpose. So is it okay if I post tomorrow for example? I'm just new to HN. By the way I even tried to make a welcome comment, but I think that I'd need to get into technical details more. Thought probably I'd make a separate article for this, not in show HN section. Regarding "Show HN: Pingr – Know when your site is down before your customers do" - I asked a lot of people and they told me that it's way too promotional for HN :) Anyway thank you for your answer!

gus_massa 6y ago
> why then it got hidden in Show HN section The ShowHN section has an order similar to the front page, so you need some upvotes to get there. Perhaps the mods do some manual deduplication, I never read that, but it may be part of the tricks that are the secret sauce. > I even tried to make a welcome comment, but I think that I'd need to get into technical details more. Expect to see technical questions. It is not obligatory to answer all of them, but it is nice to answer if they don't reveal your secret sauce. It is important that you interact in the comments, specially in the ShowHN post. > Thought probably I'd make a separate article for this, not in show HN section. Technical articles are always welcome. It's tricky to get them technical enough but not too technical. A few nice graph are generally helpful. > Regarding "Show HN: Pingr – Know when your site is down before your customers do" - I asked a lot of people and they told me that it's way too promotional for HN :) I think it is fine, but each one has his/her own opinion here. Someone will complain and ask to change "before" to "as soon as" and another user will ask to change it to "just after" :) But it is better that the title explains what the project does instead of how you did it.
- Akcium 6y ago
  Thank you again. Will try a bit later :) Maybe I'll make two posts, one just a general post about how I did it, another one is Show HN. It's interesting that everyone was telling me it's better to expose personal experience ("Show HN: I build something because something..") instead of what the project actually does ("Show HN: Uptime monitoring"). Anyway thank you for your kind response! :)
  - gus_massa 6y ago
    Take a look at https://news.ycombinator.com/show https://news.ycombinator.com/show and try to follow the style of the titles. Did you ask a bunch of regular users of HN of people that don't use HN? Each site has it's own personality and it's very difficult to understand the details from outside.

by Akcium 6y ago

gus_massa 6y ago

> why then it got hidden in Show HN section The ShowHN section has an order similar to the front page, so you need some upvotes to get there. Perhaps the mods do some manual deduplication, I never read that, but it may be part of the tricks that are the secret sauce. > I even tried to make a welcome comment, but I think that I'd need to get into technical details more. Expect to see technical questions. It is not obligatory to answer all of them, but it is nice to answer if they don't reveal your secret sauce. It is important that you interact in the comments, specially in the ShowHN post. > Thought probably I'd make a separate article for this, not in show HN section. Technical articles are always welcome. It's tricky to get them technical enough but not too technical. A few nice graph are generally helpful. > Regarding "Show HN: Pingr – Know when your site is down before your customers do" - I asked a lot of people and they told me that it's way too promotional for HN :) I think it is fine, but each one has his/her own opinion here. Someone will complain and ask to change "before" to "as soon as" and another user will ask to change it to "just after" :) But it is better that the title explains what the project does instead of how you did it.

Akcium 6y ago
Thank you again. Will try a bit later :) Maybe I'll make two posts, one just a general post about how I did it, another one is Show HN. It's interesting that everyone was telling me it's better to expose personal experience ("Show HN: I build something because something..") instead of what the project actually does ("Show HN: Uptime monitoring"). Anyway thank you for your kind response! :)
- gus_massa 6y ago
  Take a look at https://news.ycombinator.com/show https://news.ycombinator.com/show and try to follow the style of the titles. Did you ask a bunch of regular users of HN of people that don't use HN? Each site has it's own personality and it's very difficult to understand the details from outside.