Unfortunately not enough people traffic the new page to make hn a fair arbiter of content quality. If you don't like it spend some time on https://news.ycombinator.com/newest upvoting content you like.

To answer why, the links are different:

You posted the https version

This one is http

This happens all the time.

Entrepreneurs know not to bitch like this. Not only the idea is important, timing is important. The market was not ready for your idea 12 hours ago. Also luck plays a role. The right people did not see your post at the right time to upvote it.

I'd love to see a postmortem of why the original post failed. It would be useful for future posters. Honestly, we've all been there, even though you always feel like you have to tell people you're "killin' it!" with your HN submissions.

There was a discussion about the best timing to post on HN a couple of years ago :

http://silverman.svbtle.com/the-best-time-to-post-on-hacker-...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4757790

And also who said it was irrelevant:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9426040

http://antontarasenko.com/2015/04/23/best-time-to-post-its-i...

personjerry is probably confused because if you submit a duplicate link on HN it generally just adds an upvote to the previous submission. Thus "exact same link".

As mentioned below, though, it's not exactly the same: https vs. http.

Yep, this is what I was saying. Thanks!