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Re:Ask HN: How did you get your first users with zero audience? by metravod on Sunday April 19, 2026 @11:09PM (#47829986)
Oh, I’ve been struggling with exactly this recently while trying to show people my open-source AI agent engine. I built it based on my own pain points, primarily for myself—but I really believe in the architectural approach and would love to get genuine feedback from the community. It’s incredibly hard to break through the noise right now. We’ve been discussing “attention inflation” a lot on HN lately in the context of recruiting and open-source PRs, but it absolutely exists in distribution too. When everyone is overwhelmed by a flood of content, getting even 10 real developers to look at your repo feels much harder than actually writing the code.
Re:Ask HN: How did you get your first users with zero audience? by arikusi on Monday April 20, 2026 @11:36AM (#47835861)
"attention inflation" is the right name for it. The skills for building and the skills for getting attention are almost completely disjoint :), and you usually can't optimize both at once.

Just looked at zymi-core. Event-sourced + auditable is the right shape for an agent engine. replay and audit are what make autonomous behavior actually debuggable. and "asks before anything destructive" reads like someone who's lived with the consequences of autonomy.

*Heading offline for military training next week, back early June. will clone it then and come back with real feedback, not a drive-by star!

Re:Ask HN: How did you get your first users with zero audience? by slipknotfan on Tuesday April 21, 2026 @08:57AM (#47848136)
Use your AI to flood comments

/s

Re:Ask HN: How did you get your first users with zero audience? by metravod on Tuesday April 21, 2026 @10:19AM (#47849210)
Heh, that would be the fastest way to get ban, not feedback :)