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This. As someone who regularly adds (I mean, added) a link to my GitHub library in various comments I make to HN threads, I've learned the bitter lesson that ad

This. As someone who regularly adds (I mean, added) a link to my GitHub library in various comments I make to HN threads, I've learned the bitter lesson that adding the link will often result in the comment getting downvoted. When I did manage to get a "Show HN" post to the front page (with admin assistance) the link was in the title. Interest in the library was ... muted. I've come to realise that spamming my library across HN is never going to bring it the recognition it deserves. So I've decided to move on to spamming the link across Twitter and Reddit instead.

kowlo 6y ago
> So I've decided to move on to spamming the link across Twitter and Reddit instead. How's that going? Isn't Twitter mostly bots retweeting other bots?
- rikroots 6y ago
  > Isn't Twitter mostly bots retweeting other bots? Yes. When a human retweets one of my tweets I treat myself to chocolate. The ones that get retweeted most are the ones linking to Codepen demos, rather than my library's landing page. This tweet[1] (linking to a "Pixellate a realtime webcam feed"[2] demo) managed to attract 7 bots and 2 humans! [1] https://twitter.com/RikRoots/status/1375107862637252615 https://twitter.com/RikRoots/status/1375107862637252615 [2] https://codepen.io/kaliedarik/pen/BapjaXO https://codepen.io/kaliedarik/pen/BapjaXO