My business was built by repeated Show HN and posting on HN front page. The spikes led to interest, emails and GitHub stars which eventually led to thousands of stars, constant Google search traffic, and a stream of inbound leads. Even now around 10% of converting leads come from old HN content related to remote browser isolation and BrowserBox.

A seeming paradox was that often a high quality comment in another thread led to higher quality leads than a direct post with its spikes.

It is probably not how you’re supposed to do it but it worked for me, and I don’t know another way.