I'm curious. Do Show HN posts work the same way as normal link submissions? I have vague memories that certain types of posts are weighted differently and sink down the front page faster. Maybe that's for the Ask HN posts?
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#42At the risk of sounding like a stackoverflow pedant, would a hardware hack fit in Show HN? For example: Turn a raspberry pi into an FM transmitter https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7361782 .
I say Yes. I love hardware hacks.
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#44cool feat!
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Glad to see this. Show HN has always been my favorite part of Hacker News. Anything that can inspire more creation and help product builders find an audience, is a good thing, imo.
Nice to see you here! I don't mean to be rude, but how do you think it can impact Product Hunt?
I only recently joined Product Hunt, but to me the major differentiator is that Show HN are self-submitted products, while Product Hunt is a curated list. That means I'm more likely to find higher quality and interesting products on Product Hunt, but I'll be the first to learn about a new product from Show HN.
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#46I'm curious. Do Show HN posts work the same way as normal link submissions? I have vague memories that certain types of posts are weighted differently and sink down the front page faster. Maybe that's for the Ask HN posts?
You're thinking of posts without urls. There aren't any special rules for Show HNs, at least not yet.
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#47Great work! I love when organic user behaviors are recognized and made first class features. Allow me to emphasize something from the Show HN Guidelines[1]: > Be respectful. Anyone sharing creative work is making a contribution, however modest. > Ask questions out of curiosity. Don't cross-examine. > Instead of "you're doing it wrong", suggest alternatives. When someone is learning, help them learn more. > When somet…
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I'd say there's obviously room for both.
I'm afraid this comment is more than a little off-topic: maybe not for the thread as a whole, but certainly as a reply to the top comment. It doesn't relate to what rickhanlonii said in any way—and what rickhanlonii touched on is crucial: the kind of discussions we want to encourage in Show HN threads.
Let's talk about that instead, please.
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#48Stripe launched this way: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3053883 . We didn't do any press or anything like that. (We didn't think of adding the Show HN prefix, though.)
Dropbox did too:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
The "Show HN" convention hadn't been invented at that point, though.
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#49Stripe launched this way: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3053883 . We didn't do any press or anything like that. (We didn't think of adding the Show HN prefix, though.)
Dropbox did too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863 The "Show HN" convention hadn't been invented at that point, though.
The comments on this post are perfect examples of why it's hard to predict what's going to take off and what won't. And also why it's sometimes a good idea to just give people the benefit of doubt.
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nice to see you here! I don't mean to be rude, but how do you think it can impact Product Hunt?
I only recently joined Product Hunt, but to me the major differentiator is that Show HN are self-submitted products, while Product Hunt is a curated list. That means I'm more likely to find higher quality and interesting products on Product Hunt, but I'll be the first to learn about a new product from Show HN.
But /show is also curated, ranked by votes. /shownew is where you can find the latest.