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About you being the bottleneck, the only problem I see is editing being so much work for you. IMO it should be the startup job to write a Launch HN that fits t
by volta83 5y ago
About you being the bottleneck, the only problem I see is editing being so much work for you.
IMO it should be the startup job to write a Launch HN that fits the guidelines, and your job should be only to properly document / maintain the guidelines, and decide whether a post is “ready” or not, giving minimal feedback.
There are hundreds of Launch HN that startups can already read to learn how to do it the right way.
If they don’t and their post is not ready, just say “no”.
That’s something that you might be able to scale much better than having to edit all posts yourself.
If a startup marketing / PR team doesn’t have the skills or time to create a proper Launch HN, then that’s a problem that the startup should fix and it’s IMOa skill worth learning for them.
Let them learn this.
- frans 5y agoGood point, only delegation will work. It's in the startup's best interest to do a good job at this. Unless they don't consider the HN readers to be their target audience, in which case it's not relevant here anyhow. Doing other people's job, trying to make it perfect and getting behind with a growing backlog is a recipe for a burnout...