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Sorry but a two sentence idea is not Show HN material. https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

• breck 6y ago
  Thanks for linking to that. Always helpful for me to do a refresher on the rules once in a while. This is a perfect submission, according to the criteria on that page. Sometimes an idea might look small on the surface, but it's just the tip of the iceberg. For example, Leibniz's first demo of binary notation ~250 years ago notation was just about 30 character's long! It would have fit in a smaller tweet than mine! Would the discovery of binary notation not be Show HN Material? I actually think you might be able to make the case that the shorter something is, the more worthy of Show HN it is. Just to specifically go through a few of the items: > Show HN is for something you've made that other people can play with. I made this. It's an idea and you can play with it in your head. It's actually the ideal solution and solves a decently sized problem that hundreds of HN posts have talked about struggling with in the past. I've been working in this area for over 17 years. > The project must be something you've worked on personally and which you're around to discuss Check. > A Show HN needn't be complicated or look slick. The community is comfortable with work that's at an early stage. Check. Also, one for you to keep in mind: > Be respectful. Anyone sharing work is making a contribution, however modest.