I've found that my luck with getting eyeballs on general interest tech topics is about 1 in 4. I've also submitted personal projects that I've worked years on,

I've found that my luck with getting eyeballs on general interest tech topics is about 1 in 4. I've also submitted personal projects that I've worked years on, only to garner zero votes (including a second submission) [1], while a personal project I banged out in a weekend [2] or an hour [3] got way more. It's all about timing, novelty, popular trends at the time and a whole lot of luck. Honestly, don't take it personally -- predicting what random people will like is near impossible. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7986837 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7986837 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8803139 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8803139 [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9117238 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9117238