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Re:Ask HN: How do I get people to find my pre-launch landing... by gnicholas on Monday January 04, 2021 @04:57AM (#25629369)
> When you click people's accounts who have a high ranking show HN post, they seem to post 2 or 3 times in a row to get it to catch. I am not sure the secret.

A lot of it is luck. I posted a Show HN years ago, on a whim, and it became one of the top-10 Show HNs ever. It led to coverage in Fast Company and dozens of other outlets. In subsequent months, I posted about significant updates (bookmarklet -> Chrome extension, new PDF tool), and those posts went nowhere. It is hard to know why things catch on sometimes.

I'm still working on the same project, and I have HN (and the luck of that first post) to thank for it!

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Re:Ask HN: How do I get people to find my pre-launch landing... by ALittleLight on Monday January 04, 2021 @05:14AM (#25629479)
This is a very general problem for aggregators - time and luck are big factors. Time, because there is new stuff on the front page every day, and luck because with new submissions, only a small amount of people are going to see them, and if that small amount aren't a good fit, then the submission is going nowhere.
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