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I perceive it more as `interesting story` vs `interesting project`. OP's project-story is right on the edge between the two for me. At least for Show HN there

I perceive it more as `interesting story` vs `interesting project`. OP's project-story is right on the edge between the two for me. At least for Show HN there is an official guideline [0] which mentions: > Show HN is for something you've made that other people can play with. HN users can try it out, give you feedback, and ask questions in the thread. Does anyone know whether there is an official `Tell HN` guideline? The HN guidelines and FAQ pages don't specify anything as far as I could tell. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

ge96 4y ago
From what I've seen on here usually 'Tell HN:' is used for things like "this company banned my account for no reason" or "this service is down" etc... Anyway I only mention it because I looked at this post and I was like "what happened/what went wrong".
- OJFord 4y ago
  'tell' to me is more like a warning that it's not an external link (and 'ask'/'show' don't fit). 'show' is when the point of the post is to show off the project; whereas here (partly by the fact that it is 'tell'!) the point is sort of tangential to the actual project, it's just an example of the topic rather than the topic itself.