Personally, I tend to check out the ones that go somewhere and not just link to their github repo.
Sometimes comment, sometimes don't, depends...
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#12isn’t that what producthunt does as well?
I think producthunt is for actual product releases. Show HN has a much wider range.
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#13The problem that I see here is that development.kitchen needs quality traffic to provide that feedback, which sounds like the most difficult part of running this service.
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#14Why are there some entries with what appears to be a poll with garbage answers? Seems like they're taking up a lot of space and I don't understand the point of them.
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#15I hope HN had its top section carved out for some of the latest show HN entries. Kind of like how when you search on Google, the top entries are "sponsored links", but instead of sponsored links you would see latest show HN entries. Sure there is a "show" menu item but who really clicks on that? Which means most of us only find out about show HN projects ONLY IF they come up to the front page, or if we're constantly…
>You could say "just keep posting until it gets traction", but anyone who's built and posted something on HN knows this is really stressful and easier said than done, because most people--no matter how much they believe in their own project--don't want to spam the site they like.
Wait, you won't get in trouble for sending duplicates? I was always under the impressions that mods were pretty strict about one-and-done. Goes to show me I guess.
Edit: Huh. Went back and read the rules, there seems to be nothing against it... It seems like what I thought was "one-and-done" was more "as a guideline, to be well-received, don't submit the same thing often"
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#16Yea, I posted something I've been working about a week ago and it got all of 2 points and no comments. I figure I'll wait a few more days and try again. I reckon that's a long enough wait to not constitute 'spam'.
I think it's just blind luck, mostly.
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#17Why are there some entries with what appears to be a poll with garbage answers? Seems like they're taking up a lot of space and I don't understand the point of them. https://imgur.com/a/FftPd
The questionaires were meant to be a mechanism to allow creators to get additional feedback. They can be posted by the original HN story author and we verify that they are the original author by asking that they post a link to the questionaire as a comment on the HN story. These were the ones posted by those posters - we have work to do here to allow editing and also flagging.
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#18Yea, I posted something I've been working about a week ago and it got all of 2 points and no comments. I figure I'll wait a few more days and try again. I reckon that's a long enough wait to not constitute 'spam'. I think it's just blind luck, mostly.
There's also the timing - beware of timezones, but yeah
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#19Yea, I posted something I've been working about a week ago and it got all of 2 points and no comments. I figure I'll wait a few more days and try again. I reckon that's a long enough wait to not constitute 'spam'. I think it's just blind luck, mostly.
There's also the timing - beware of timezones, but yeah
I keep forgetting - I'm on the east coast and have a tendency to post things before the west coast is out of bed.
I've also wondered if posting on an otherwise slow day (Sunday?) would be a good idea (less competition) or a bad idea (fewer eyeballs).
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#20I think "hot take mode" is hilarious and needs to be more present in your UI. Neat idea