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Make Things and Show Them

151 points by _pius 12y ago

lbrandy 12y ago
So I woke this morning to the surreal email from Daniel @ hn claiming that I had invented (errr... Discovered?) the "show hn" style post. As I said in the quoted reply, from what I recall, it was just a play on "ask hn".
- aristus 12y ago
  By far, your most important accomplishment. Don't be modest. ;)
spindritf 12y ago
Awesome. Is there an RSS channel for Show HN only?
- dang 12y ago
  Good idea. Let's do it. Edit: it's done and will go live with the next deploy.
  - peqnp 12y ago
    Any chance of having the new functionality's source code released, or at least some of it?
- FiddlerClamp 12y ago
  Check out: http://hnapp.com/api/items/rss/9205b686fc8b9b396a0d40e43663116f http://hnapp.com/api/items/rss/9205b686fc8b9b396a0d40e436631...
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hodgesmr 12y ago
Title reminds me of 'Do Things, Tell People' http://carl.flax.ie/dothingstellpeople.html http://carl.flax.ie/dothingstellpeople.html
- dang 12y ago
  I was thinking of "make something people want" and "move fast and break things". But you're right, that's another. No claims to originality here.
robg 12y ago
I've noticed a marked change for the better since dang came aboard. Links are generally more informative with less controversy and comments are overall good and nice with less flaming trolls. Just great to see the efforts really paying off for a fantastic community. Thanks Dan!
- Mandatum 12y ago
  I think the mods are influencing the frontpage a bit more than before, with good mods this is working really well.
olegp 12y ago
If you want to know what it feels like when a Show HN post takes off, check out this blog post I wrote a while back: https://web.archive.org/web/20121030145412/http://blog.akshell.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20121030145412/http://blog.akshe... I have yet to reproduce that initial success we had with Akshell with StartHQ (https://starthq.com https://starthq.com), my latest venture, but maybe that's for the better. Steady growth beats riding a roller coaster any day.
Tyrant505 12y ago
I propose we have an "Ask me" to follow reddit's great success with such posts.
Curmudgel 12y ago
Off topic, but #999 on #FFF (author title and background color, respectively) fails the WAG guidelines for color contrast.
tunnuz 12y ago
I love how just the introduction of the new section has already triggered a chain reaction of Show posts. I guess people are taking the chance to show what they have done (and maybe never shown to anyone). Good job!
pcarmichael 12y ago
Replies to an Ask HN post almost four years ago were instrumental in gathering feedback and cementing the direction for my then fledgling site. A bit later it went from side project to full-time work, so I always keep an eye out for Tell HN and Ask HN posts.
duck 12y ago
Really glad to see this! The 'Show HN' posts were one of the main reasons I started Hacker Newsletter (http://hackernewsletter.com http://hackernewsletter.com) four years ago and from the very first issue it has been one of the most popular sections.
aupajo 12y ago
I found out that I had the “first” Show HN post this morning when someone mentioned it on Slack. It's nice to think I might have some small footnote in a bit of Hacker News history. Actually, about 5 months before I posted “Show and Tell HN”, I posted a link called “Show and Tell YC” (the link and domain is now owned by someone else, but the original post is at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=237544 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=237544). As lbrandy said, it was a play on the “Ask HN” or “Ask YC” posts going around at the time.

151 points by _pius 12y ago

So I woke this morning to the surreal email from Daniel @ hn claiming that I had invented (errr... Discovered?) the "show hn" style post. As I said in the quoted reply, from what I recall, it was just a play on "ask hn".

aristus 12y ago
By far, your most important accomplishment. Don't be modest. ;)

spindritf 12y ago

Awesome. Is there an RSS channel for Show HN only?

dang 12y ago
Good idea. Let's do it. Edit: it's done and will go live with the next deploy.
- peqnp 12y ago
  Any chance of having the new functionality's source code released, or at least some of it?
FiddlerClamp 12y ago
Check out: http://hnapp.com/api/items/rss/9205b686fc8b9b396a0d40e43663116f http://hnapp.com/api/items/rss/9205b686fc8b9b396a0d40e436631...

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hodgesmr 12y ago

Title reminds me of 'Do Things, Tell People' http://carl.flax.ie/dothingstellpeople.html http://carl.flax.ie/dothingstellpeople.html

dang 12y ago
I was thinking of "make something people want" and "move fast and break things". But you're right, that's another. No claims to originality here.

robg 12y ago

I've noticed a marked change for the better since dang came aboard. Links are generally more informative with less controversy and comments are overall good and nice with less flaming trolls. Just great to see the efforts really paying off for a fantastic community. Thanks Dan!

Mandatum 12y ago
I think the mods are influencing the frontpage a bit more than before, with good mods this is working really well.

olegp 12y ago

If you want to know what it feels like when a Show HN post takes off, check out this blog post I wrote a while back: https://web.archive.org/web/20121030145412/http://blog.akshell.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20121030145412/http://blog.akshe... I have yet to reproduce that initial success we had with Akshell with StartHQ (https://starthq.com https://starthq.com), my latest venture, but maybe that's for the better. Steady growth beats riding a roller coaster any day.

Tyrant505 12y ago

I propose we have an "Ask me" to follow reddit's great success with such posts.

Curmudgel 12y ago

Off topic, but #999 on #FFF (author title and background color, respectively) fails the WAG guidelines for color contrast.

tunnuz 12y ago

I love how just the introduction of the new section has already triggered a chain reaction of Show posts. I guess people are taking the chance to show what they have done (and maybe never shown to anyone). Good job!

pcarmichael 12y ago

Replies to an Ask HN post almost four years ago were instrumental in gathering feedback and cementing the direction for my then fledgling site. A bit later it went from side project to full-time work, so I always keep an eye out for Tell HN and Ask HN posts.

duck 12y ago

Really glad to see this! The 'Show HN' posts were one of the main reasons I started Hacker Newsletter (http://hackernewsletter.com http://hackernewsletter.com) four years ago and from the very first issue it has been one of the most popular sections.

aupajo 12y ago

I found out that I had the “first” Show HN post this morning when someone mentioned it on Slack. It's nice to think I might have some small footnote in a bit of Hacker News history. Actually, about 5 months before I posted “Show and Tell HN”, I posted a link called “Show and Tell YC” (the link and domain is now owned by someone else, but the original post is at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=237544 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=237544). As lbrandy said, it was a play on the “Ask HN” or “Ask YC” posts going around at the time.