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I was just about to say the same thing. The stock photo looks ammeter and spammy. That linked page looks like a template. The home page of the domain looks grea

I was just about to say the same thing. The stock photo looks ammeter and spammy. That linked page looks like a template. The home page of the domain looks great and I would have linked to that with treating it more like a launch. Also, there does not seem to be anything groundbreaking or 'newsworthy' about the submission. You are just looking to get your product more customers, not looking to start a discussion.

trumbitta2 14y ago
"Also, there does not seem to be anything groundbreaking or 'newsworthy' about the submission. You are just looking to get your product more customers, not looking to start a discussion." Well, I think I have even more to learn about HN and netiquette in general. The original post was a "Show HN" ... what I was supposed to write to start a discussion?
- lukeholder 14y ago
  How about making it a launch announcement and not just a feature update page? Your product is not a large popular project like coffeescript or ruby, thus version update announcements for products like yours are not newsworthy. Maybe if your product is groundbreaking or has a unique value proposition would not be marked as spam.
- lifeisstillgood 14y ago
  Tell your story I never dig in to your about page but you have seemingly taken a journey that is in itself iteresting to HN - you started working at company X and wrote some OSS software that was useful. You and others kept improving it at nights I guess, then it broke out of one company and is used at many - how did that happen? Who is the customer you realised it was not just friends and family. You set up on your own - a big thing round here, and you did so supporting OSS software. If you want some interest can I suggest a three part blog post on how you and your team got started, when you broke out of just the one company and when you broke into a start up - and keep it about you and your colleagues - the actual product is a mcguffin - only tell us the parts about the pAinful lessons of test coverage or the inabity to remotely diagnose that meant a 2 am drive to another city Tell us your story. And redo that template :-)
niggler 14y ago
"The stock photo looks ammeter" I wonder what an ohmmeter stock photo looks like ...
- peejaybee 14y ago
  I'm going to try and resist the potential pun chain here.
- jonjohn84 14y ago
  I lack the capacity to resist.

trumbitta2 14y ago

"Also, there does not seem to be anything groundbreaking or 'newsworthy' about the submission. You are just looking to get your product more customers, not looking to start a discussion." Well, I think I have even more to learn about HN and netiquette in general. The original post was a "Show HN" ... what I was supposed to write to start a discussion?

lukeholder 14y ago
How about making it a launch announcement and not just a feature update page? Your product is not a large popular project like coffeescript or ruby, thus version update announcements for products like yours are not newsworthy. Maybe if your product is groundbreaking or has a unique value proposition would not be marked as spam.
lifeisstillgood 14y ago
Tell your story I never dig in to your about page but you have seemingly taken a journey that is in itself iteresting to HN - you started working at company X and wrote some OSS software that was useful. You and others kept improving it at nights I guess, then it broke out of one company and is used at many - how did that happen? Who is the customer you realised it was not just friends and family. You set up on your own - a big thing round here, and you did so supporting OSS software. If you want some interest can I suggest a three part blog post on how you and your team got started, when you broke out of just the one company and when you broke into a start up - and keep it about you and your colleagues - the actual product is a mcguffin - only tell us the parts about the pAinful lessons of test coverage or the inabity to remotely diagnose that meant a 2 am drive to another city Tell us your story. And redo that template :-)

niggler 14y ago

"The stock photo looks ammeter" I wonder what an ohmmeter stock photo looks like ...

peejaybee 14y ago
I'm going to try and resist the potential pun chain here.
jonjohn84 14y ago
I lack the capacity to resist.