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My experience is that quite a lot of people don't have success with HN even if this is their audience. The thing is - more often than not your post will not get

My experience is that quite a lot of people don't have success with HN even if this is their audience. The thing is - more often than not your post will not get any attention... just because of luck.

mathgladiator 4y ago
I'm there as well and appreciate this post. I'm currently only posting to HN as I build up my content and refine my thinking, so it's fine for now.
MrWiffles 4y ago
Yeah, my experience with HN is very similar - luck 'o the draw. Seems timing of day with particular attention to Pacific time zone in the US is key. @OP - drop us a link here anyway! I'd love to see your software, and by all means if it solves a problem for me, I'm ALL ABOUT throwing (reasonable) money at you! I'd much rather deal with human beings and small business than $GLOBOCORP_X for my day-to-day needs!
zzo38computer 4y ago
My experience, too. That didn't help, and I do not know what does help. However, there are some things that I will not post them on, such as Facebook (although other people are allowed to post it wherever they want to do, if they want to do, but I will not do it myself). In some cases I find pages that I cannot post to; in one case, after typing in a message, I got an error about my IP address being banned (for something I didn't do), except that the IP address in the error message was not my own (maybe there is some kind of misconfigured proxy). (Note: In my case, I do not request any money.)
pdyc 4y ago
yes that is my experience as well. Additionally it will get into some other tangent like if you are providing some online service people will ask about self hosting, if you give them binaries for self-hosting they will ask about source code, if you give source-code they will crib about gpl/agpl etc. :-)
pedalpete 4y ago
It's a matter of dropping a link. What's the harm. So people don't show up. Maybe they do. Can it hurt? Maybe you'll get feedback, maybe you'll get nothing. You need to just get out there and do something. Face your fear. Post a link. See what happens. Start talking to people. If you think this is the hard part, it isn't. This is probably the easiest thing you are going to do.

My experience is that quite a lot of people don't have success with HN even if this is their audience. The thing is - more often than not your post will not get any attention... just because of luck.

mathgladiator 4y ago

I'm there as well and appreciate this post. I'm currently only posting to HN as I build up my content and refine my thinking, so it's fine for now.

MrWiffles 4y ago

Yeah, my experience with HN is very similar - luck 'o the draw. Seems timing of day with particular attention to Pacific time zone in the US is key. @OP - drop us a link here anyway! I'd love to see your software, and by all means if it solves a problem for me, I'm ALL ABOUT throwing (reasonable) money at you! I'd much rather deal with human beings and small business than $GLOBOCORP_X for my day-to-day needs!

zzo38computer 4y ago

My experience, too. That didn't help, and I do not know what does help. However, there are some things that I will not post them on, such as Facebook (although other people are allowed to post it wherever they want to do, if they want to do, but I will not do it myself). In some cases I find pages that I cannot post to; in one case, after typing in a message, I got an error about my IP address being banned (for something I didn't do), except that the IP address in the error message was not my own (maybe there is some kind of misconfigured proxy). (Note: In my case, I do not request any money.)

pdyc 4y ago

yes that is my experience as well. Additionally it will get into some other tangent like if you are providing some online service people will ask about self hosting, if you give them binaries for self-hosting they will ask about source code, if you give source-code they will crib about gpl/agpl etc. :-)

pedalpete 4y ago

It's a matter of dropping a link. What's the harm. So people don't show up. Maybe they do. Can it hurt? Maybe you'll get feedback, maybe you'll get nothing. You need to just get out there and do something. Face your fear. Post a link. See what happens. Start talking to people. If you think this is the hard part, it isn't. This is probably the easiest thing you are going to do.