Ask HN: What do you take in consideration before submitting to HN?

1 points by Philomath 9y ago ↗ HN

I've recently joined HN and I've posted once since then, in the Show HN category. I didn't receive any feedback which I find normal considering that I am really new here.

This made me wonder: what makes something succeed in HN? I'm sure the quality of the link surely matters a lot (probably the most), but there's other variables that matter a lot too. Things like:

- Title

- Just link vs text with a link

- Time to post

- Karma? (I don't know if it's important for submitting)

- and many others that I don't know of but you surely do!

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hfsktr 9y ago ↗

I usually post something if I don't see it posted before and want to say something or think it's techie/cool.

I hear that time of day and day of post make a lot of impact if you want the most exposure.

For show/ask HN I don't need it to take off and be #1, just a few comments is usually enough to get many insights.

gjvc 9y ago ↗

Too meta

Philomath 9y ago ↗

Is it? I'm really interested in knowing why.

Do you call this meta because the question comes from a previous experience of mine?

I've never understood the word meta as it can have a lot of different meanings depending of the contest.