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My friend from time to time makes some really cool project, then he posts it on HN and gets zero traction. His submission page [1] looks so ridiculous now, that
by untech 4y ago
My friend from time to time makes some really cool project, then he posts it on HN and gets zero traction. His submission page [1] looks so ridiculous now, that I joke that his next submission would look like “Show HN: I created a true AGI running on my analog wristwatch (3 points, 0 comments)”.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=borzunov https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=borzunov
- nl 4y agoPetals does look interesting. I think his descriptions need work though. You know it got some good traction in this submission? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34215665 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34215665
- untech 4y agoYes, and I still don’t understand why this submission got successful while others didn’t! He tried “Show HN”, it failed. I thought that his title was too unclear, tried submitting myself as an ordinary link, it failed. Then TechCrunch wrote an article, he tried submitting TechCrunch link, it failed. And some weeks later, someone completely unrelated submitted the link, and it blew up!
- nl 4y agoThere's a lot of luck involved with HN. You really need a couple of interested people to see it at the same time and start a conversation.