Ask HN: How and where to gain popularity for your project?
I made my project but it is not well known, I tried to advertise it here on Hacker News but I often got [marked], I also tried to promote it through other services but it didn't work on them either It didn't work out to gain popularity, but of all the best services, they were talking about HN It was said here that they gained popularity with the help of this site, but it doesn't work for me.
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[ 3.7 ms ] story [ 13.2 ms ] threadIt may just be that the project isn't interesting to enough people here to gain traction, or that it appeals to a niche audience that isn't well represented here. Just speculating, I don't actually know.
IMHO you've tried promoting too hard using Ask HN.
Apart from several "Show HN" about the project there was "Show HN: Tell and show your most successful projects" pointing to the project, "Ask HN: Do you still build terminal tools for fun?", "Ask HN: Let's learn more about each one, shall we?" and "Ask HN: What the project you're most proud of?" had links to it.
"Ask HN: Tell me, what is your favorite programming language?" was a low-ball question and the first comment included "I don't want to be greedy, but please, if you can, support me by putting a star on the repository" making it seem the question was more about self-promotion.
On https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44518588 your comments were "Are there any Linux fans here?" and "How are you". It looks like attempts to what marketers call driving engagement.
Individually understandable, great projects you have, I like them, but it's been all within a week. You got told to post less (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44535008) but seems to have shifted to variants of promotion. Try an approach of "how can I promote it this week" instead of "today".
> I sent a polite email asking why. No reply.
I've gotten replies same day but sometimes weeks later. HN moderators care, but are overloaded. There's only one^H^H^H two these days.