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Re: Show HN: I built a tool that helps predict HN front page success

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ranit wrote: post #20
embedding-shape wrote: post #10

Funny how different people have different understandings of "success" :) This seems to mention the score and how likely something is to be on the frontpage, none of those things would mean "success" to me. The value from Show HN isn't from the eyeballs, your website analytics reaching higher than before or the score of the HN submission, the value sits in the conversations and discussions you'll end up having in the…

Well, the amount of valuable comments that would form a good discussion is highly correlated with the time a project being on front page, isn’t it.

Well, kind of but also not fully. Yes for the "global" frontpage, but for the /show list, your submission can stay on the "front" there for almost a full week, and with proper discussions already establish the first day or two, you still get valuable insights after days, even after it drops off.

But I think that requires eager participating from the submitter as well, not just drop your project and not replying to anyone, or not replying with an open mind/required perspective.

Re: Show HN: I built a tool that helps predict HN front page success

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embedding-shape wrote: post #21
ranit wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, the amount of valuable comments that would form a good discussion is highly correlated with the time a project being on front page, isn’t it.

Well, kind of but also not fully. Yes for the "global" frontpage, but for the /show list, your submission can stay on the "front" there for almost a full week, and with proper discussions already establish the first day or two, you still get valuable insights after days, even after it drops off. But I think that requires eager participating from the submitter as well, not just drop your project and not replying to an…

>for the /show list, your submission can stay on the "front" there for almost a full week

Good to know this and yes, ShowHN gathers more discussions with the author. One question: is it still true, that a submission can stay for days on /show for days? I read here recently that with the LLM trend of creating software /show became very overcrowded.

Re: Show HN: I built a tool that helps predict HN front page success

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ranit wrote: post #22
embedding-shape wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, kind of but also not fully. Yes for the "global" frontpage, but for the /show list, your submission can stay on the "front" there for almost a full week, and with proper discussions already establish the first day or two, you still get valuable insights after days, even after it drops off. But I think that requires eager participating from the submitter as well, not just drop your project and not replying to an…

>for the /show list, your submission can stay on the "front" there for almost a full week Good to know this and yes, ShowHN gathers more discussions with the author. One question: is it still true, that a submission can stay for days on /show for days? I read here recently that with the LLM trend of creating software /show became very overcrowded.

As of writing this comment, this is item #30 (last) on /show:

> Show HN: Live Sun and Moon Dashboard with NASA Footage (lumara-space.app) - 222 points by beeswaxpat 5 days ago | flag | 70 comments

So yeah, definitively possible for it to stick around multiple days. Maybe not a full week anymore like it used to in the past, but still a long time. Conversations and engaged discussions can continue past that too, as authors check for replies then reply themselves, and so on.

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