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> Is it because on HN, people are after dev tools, not studying tools? Pretty much. It's mostly the wrong audience. HN is interested in things that are either
by tikkun 3y ago
> Is it because on HN, people are after dev tools, not studying tools?
Pretty much. It's mostly the wrong audience.
HN is interested in things that are either aimed at a technical audience, or where you can show some really unique way of building something so that even if the end product isn't relevant to a technical audience, that the process used to build it was.
There'll always be exceptions, but that's the general rule I've observed. And most of the exceptions are things where there's some other aspect of the product that makes it interesting to HN or some aspect of how it was built that makes it interesting to HN, or where the target audience happens to overlap with HN type users to a high degree.
I looked at the show HN in your history and I would've skipped over it and not read it. If it was a technical blog post about how you solved something that was both interesting to me and seemed novel, then I might've clicked. (But if you had that information buried inside something that seemed like "just" a product for learning, I wouldn't have clicked)
Try product hunt, twitter, tiktok, and other places.
- CedricTeyton 3y agoTo quote Paul Graham: > If you want to appeal to Hacker News readers, tell them how something complicated works. Especially if most people either don't know, or are mistaken about, how it works. Source: https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1553708274465140736 https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1553708274465140736