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> After publishing a video on improving the first run experience for software applications, I now have a small flock of little birds telling me that you should

> After publishing a video on improving the first run experience for software applications, I now have a small flock of little birds telling me that you should really, really consider doing this. Not sure if it's sentence structure or my stupidity, but I'm not sure what you're saying here :) Are you saying that all software applications should have a 'how it works' video, or that you made a video about the 'first run experience' and everyone should have a better 'first run experience'? Thanks in advance!

patio11 14y ago
Sorry for the oblique phrasing -- I was trying to avoid being self-promotional. I'll rephrase to make it more comprehensible but it's going to require an ad: I made https://training.kalzumeus.com https://training.kalzumeus.com <-- a video on this subject. (The site trades access to the video for your email address and permission to contact you.) Subsequently to publishing that, people who I am declining to name (+) got in touch with me and presented several independent confirmations that, yep, their first-run experiences that they wrote using the video's advice did meaningful things to their business. + There is an idiom in English "A little bird told me that...", which reports a comment made by someone whose identity you want to keep secret. A "flock of little birds" is an amusing image for reporting the same comment made by many people, or at least I thought it was.
- brlewis 14y ago
  When the way to make your post sound less self-promotional is to make it less comprehensible and useful, please go ahead and be self-promotional, i.e. put the link in there and be specific about what success people have told you they had using the technique. If you've become shy about self-promotion due to downvoting, please ignore it. Downvoting on HN seems random in the last year or two. Please think only about how helpful you think your comment is, as if you were oblivious to how self-promotional it might sound. Helpful pointers to something you made will always sound self-promotional; there's no way around it.
- comex 14y ago
  It made me wonder if you were referring to Twitter somehow. :)

patio11 14y ago

Sorry for the oblique phrasing -- I was trying to avoid being self-promotional. I'll rephrase to make it more comprehensible but it's going to require an ad: I made https://training.kalzumeus.com https://training.kalzumeus.com <-- a video on this subject. (The site trades access to the video for your email address and permission to contact you.) Subsequently to publishing that, people who I am declining to name (+) got in touch with me and presented several independent confirmations that, yep, their first-run experiences that they wrote using the video's advice did meaningful things to their business. + There is an idiom in English "A little bird told me that...", which reports a comment made by someone whose identity you want to keep secret. A "flock of little birds" is an amusing image for reporting the same comment made by many people, or at least I thought it was.

brlewis 14y ago
When the way to make your post sound less self-promotional is to make it less comprehensible and useful, please go ahead and be self-promotional, i.e. put the link in there and be specific about what success people have told you they had using the technique. If you've become shy about self-promotion due to downvoting, please ignore it. Downvoting on HN seems random in the last year or two. Please think only about how helpful you think your comment is, as if you were oblivious to how self-promotional it might sound. Helpful pointers to something you made will always sound self-promotional; there's no way around it.
comex 14y ago
It made me wonder if you were referring to Twitter somehow. :)