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"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 look
by 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 agoHow 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 agoTell 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 :-)