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Comment by freehorse

17 hours ago

Most stuff posted here are mostly ignored, though. If grounding to reality requires one to become viral first, we are cooked.

HN frontpage hardly requires being viral.

Just genuine intrigue from a select few.

  • Did you ever visit `https://news.ycombinator.com/newest` page? Like 99% of submitted topics are never seen by anyone but few wanderers.

    • Often.

      95%+ of submitted topics have poorly formatted titles, are submitted at off-peak times where there’s less users of demographics who might upvote,

      and if your Show HN isn’t as widely applicable as this, those things might be important to think about.

      Fairness aside, of course.

  • It’s still way easier the first time.

    The 50th time someone comes to the same conclusion nobody on HN is going to upvote the topic.