From my experience with ShaderGif, which had some success (144 points): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18666146 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18666

From my experience with ShaderGif, which had some success (144 points): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18666146 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18666146 It's still online, but I'm thinking of turning it off every now and then. The show HN did bring a big traffic spike for maybe a week, which brought a lot of dopamine. At this point I thought that I got the ball rolling, but the traffic faded away. After this, promoting the project became more difficult because every other channel brings much less traffic than what you see during the Show HN. Maybe there is always something like a post-Show-HN depression, either because you got no upvote or because the traffic spike fades away.