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Ask HN: What's the reason ShowHN posts do not get featured?

1 points by lucgagan ↗ HN
I've made my first ShowHN post and was excited to get some feedback about what I am building (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36283179). But after posting it, it got zero engagement. I thought that sucked... but then when trying to find the same post I realized that it was never made public. I can see it from my account, but it is not visible if I check from my friend's account. Do these posts go through manual approval?

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sp332
Your Show HN post was killed, either by a mod or automatically. Email the “Contact” link at the bottom of the page here and ask why.
TowerTall
My guess it that is got killed because it sounds like an advertisement. A better format would be "Hi, I am x. I have built a devtool for y. I build it because the current tools sucks at z. The one feature I like the most in my tool is q."

After reading your pitch I am still not sure what technologies and audience your devtool are for and what problem it tries to solve.