I think HN may be less useful these days. I noticed many posts got a great initial vote profile in a few minutes but then were prevented from any front page or or any good show page slots. Is either moderation downweighting, or some abusing the flag system. It’s not good to suppress good work.

I’m having success right now with Reddit and YouTube. I think HN may be over for good work unless you are protected/blessed/not downweighted by mods.

I love your promos video - how did you put that together? Vibing with the retro internet story.

Also i am building something with similar goals: https://duetbrowser.com/dub-cli

I’m very glad you got on the show page. Many of my recent posts that got the same vote/time rate with similar min stories on show never escaped new - indicating flag or mod suppression - even tho there’s zero rational reason and no good reason for anyone to do that. Good work should be shown not hidden by personal bias of a few

I’m not a noob - i got the biggest show HN of last year, but the system, or the experience of some accounts including mine has radically changed in the last few months. So far the mods are saying they don’t know anything about outright downweighting, but have not shown data that supports that. What I’ve seen very much supports that

Good luck with your post!

This is not how Cursor got their moment. They built credibility gradually by continuing to develop the product and regularly sharing it in different spaces (Twitter, GitHub, probably elsewhere).

If a project has already been on HN and has set off a flamewar, you don't get a better outcome by submitting the same project under a different URL the following week.

You take the feedback and think about how to improve the product or the messaging, then try again when it's changed enough to be worthy of another shot at the front page.