Ask HN: How to post on Show HN without getting tagged as dupe

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40525342

by wiwoworld • 2 years ago

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Hi all,

I've submitted a post about our startup some months ago and got a lot of feedback.

We've implemented all suggestions and fixed all the bugs that were mentioned. We've also added some other features and now we wanted to post it again for new round of feedback, but the new post was tagged as [dupe].

How can I prevent that?

Must the new post be vastly different from the old one?

barbazoo2• 2 years ago

I think the URL needs to be different. If that's the case, don't link to your home page but some more specific path. E.g. "https://yoursite.com/blog/how-weve-implemented-all-suggestio..." instead of just "https://yoursite.com/blog".

wiwoworld3• 2 years ago

Which URL do you mean? The one posted in some of the old threads?

barbazoo2• 2 years ago

I assumed you were submitting a URL.

skilled3• 2 years ago

Show HN is not a guarantee that it will be picked up by users every single time. Your last submission was a few days ago and it didn’t land with users that time.

In your initial submission three months ago you said you are struggling with getting users. I would work on changing this mindset so you don’t feel like HN is your only avenue of new visitors/users.

Another thing I would do is to try and get one of those “UX review” services done for your app (they aren’t that expensive) - the ones that put your app in front of real people, and this way you will get feedback on how people use your app and whether it is the way you intended.

This way you won’t have to deal with things like the top comment in your last Show HN being about AdBlock…

Keep working on it. Change the landing page so I am not greeted with the Maps interface straight away. Let people have a brief introduction and a tiny onboarding experience.

wiwoworld3• 2 years ago

Hi,

Thanks for the suggestions!

I've hidden the post that I posted few days ago, because still had things to fix and wanted to post at different time, so it was not exactly shown to the people :)

And about getting early adopters ... I've tried many options. Have IG, Threads, FB accounts that I develop in order to have an audience, who could fill this gap.

Tried also to post on lots of different mediums, have also Google Ads running, FB ads running, etc. ... just the only real feedback that I got was here :D

I will take a look into some "UX review" services.

Thanks, once again!

skilled3• 2 years ago

Oh, btw.. I tested your site on mobile and that was the first thing I saw.

I now see you do have a landing page for desktop users.

Ask HN: How to post on Show HN without getting tagged as dupe

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