Just for the record, I did not ask for upvotes or support. I asked for comments. And love. Considering how nasty HN readers can be, I think it's reasonable to ask for love. Heck, it's an article about how hard it is to survive as a full-time open source developer.

If that were the case, you would have linked directly to the submission, but you linked to the /newest page to utilize the non-direct-link upvote trick.

Oh you're right. I didn't even think about that. Sorry.

can you tell me whats wrong in it? just want to understand

It breaks HN's rules, and gets accounts penalized and banned. We want users to vote for stories that they personally find intellectually interesting—not because they or a friend has something to promote.

I totally understand and even I wont support such things but just because you mentioned it on twitter doesnt breaks any rule first of all and at the same time you do want to tell you audience that you have something interesting going on HN. specially the rate HN post are getting posted whats else choice you have. Most of the people hardly visit 2nd page atleast the people i met.

But with due respect isnt HN's model is already broken? just because people aren't openly accepting it doesnt mean their friends and in most cases their employee didnt upvoted/commented for the sake of the company.

Note: My intention behind the last para is not to promote such things.