With a 5x increase in Show HN, who sees what you build?
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Re: With a 5x increase in Show HN, who sees what you build?
#2Also see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47045804
Is Show HN dead? No, but it's drowning (arthurcnops.blog)
522 points | by acnops | 15 days ago | 440 comments
Re: With a 5x increase in Show HN, who sees what you build?
#3> It shows that devs think that what they’ve created is good enough to post on HN
Not exactly right I think. Many of them are attempting to create a money tree and HN is seen as a place for marketing. These accounts have very little understanding of the HN community and what it takes to do well here. They have heir claw spam reading the common advice for doing well on HN without understanding the nuances of those points.
I do agree with the author, for a subset of showhn, that the quote is likely accurate.
Re: With a 5x increase in Show HN, who sees what you build?
#4> It shows that devs think that what they’ve created is good enough to post on HN Not exactly right I think. Many of them are attempting to create a money tree and HN is seen as a place for marketing. These accounts have very little understanding of the HN community and what it takes to do well here. They have heir claw spam reading the common advice for doing well on HN without understanding the nuances of those poi…
You could well be right, though I think whatever the mix of Show HN spam vs. ham is the point that almost all it gets no attention remains the same.
Re: With a 5x increase in Show HN, who sees what you build?
#5> It shows that devs think that what they’ve created is good enough to post on HN Not exactly right I think. Many of them are attempting to create a money tree and HN is seen as a place for marketing. These accounts have very little understanding of the HN community and what it takes to do well here. They have heir claw spam reading the common advice for doing well on HN without understanding the nuances of those poi…
You could well be right, though I think whatever the mix of Show HN spam vs. ham is the point that almost all it gets no attention remains the same.
For sure, good Show HNs suffer because of the spam. Hoping it dies down with time, much like the crypto hype cycle (which it turns out are one of the primary sources of spam this cycle too)