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Entrepreneurs know not to bitch like this. Not only the idea is important, timing is important. The market was not ready for your idea 12 hours ago. Also luck p
by x5n1 11y ago
Entrepreneurs know not to bitch like this. Not only the idea is important, timing is important. The market was not ready for your idea 12 hours ago. Also luck plays a role. The right people did not see your post at the right time to upvote it.
- kzhahou 11y agoI'd love to see a postmortem of why the original post failed. It would be useful for future posters. Honestly, we've all been there, even though you always feel like you have to tell people you're "killin' it!" with your HN submissions.
- pmelendez 11y agoThere was a discussion about the best timing to post on HN a couple of years ago : http://silverman.svbtle.com/the-best-time-to-post-on-hacker-news http://silverman.svbtle.com/the-best-time-to-post-on-hacker-... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4757790 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4757790 And also who said it was irrelevant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9426040 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9426040 http://antontarasenko.com/2015/04/23/best-time-to-post-its-irrelevant/ http://antontarasenko.com/2015/04/23/best-time-to-post-its-i...
- rfrey 11y agopersonjerry is probably confused because if you submit a duplicate link on HN it generally just adds an upvote to the previous submission. Thus "exact same link". As mentioned below, though, it's not exactly the same: https vs. http.
- personjerry 11y agoYep, this is what I was saying. Thanks!