jacktasia

Obviously to some degree the answer to this is always "yes" ...but timing of post, quality of title, etc. all must matter to a certain degree too, right?

I've done 4 or 5 "Show HNs" over the last 2 months for my current project (as I've added new features) and I've gotten basically one comment. I can't decide if this is a reflection of my project not being interesting, something about HN, or my total lack of marketing skills (or something else)?

I'd really appreciate any input... or "just" ideas for marketing for hackers. Every tip I read seems to basically be: spam but don't spam. For whatever reason I have a real problem reaching out to people because I feel like I am spamming them...and then when I go ahead and do it anyway I just get ignored anyway. Thoughts?

Thanks!

Howdy

So upstreamist (see name note at end) basically scrapes the front page of HN, Reddit, and Digg and then tries to show this data in cool ways.

http://upstreamist.com

The area people seem to like best is "where first" ..this tells where an article was posted first (and where else) if it made it to the frontpage of more than one source.

I would really like to get some feedback on what else you think I should add. Here's what I've been thinking/been told:

* parallel discussions * making the data available in standard format (probably json) * do something like nowmov since I have a building list of videos that I know are popular (at least to a certain crowd). * scrape beyond a sources front page (then maybe concentrate on search?) * I have an idea for hybrid between Google Reader and Google News (but I am a news/current events junkie...).

Thanks so much for reading all of this.

----------- On Name:

pg gave me the name upstreamist here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1319455

I was totally pumped about that and it's totally re-energized me on this project. Hopefully it wasn't inappropriate of me to reference him in the title.