I am a Show HN expert. You need to just keep trying until you get traction. Sometimes it's title. Sometimes it's timing. Sometimes it's more substantial - a chance to rethink, redo, rebrand, rewrite, etc.

Also, mods can help. They are friendly and generous. Reach out to them via email and ask them about your post. Often they have something to say and it's useful.

The challenge you encountered is nothing to do with the recent spike. I've been doing Show HN for 10 years. It's always been this way. It's never "easy" to get the attention of the community. But there are some things that can help, such as the time you post.

Check out these heatmaps of the average/mean post score versus hour/day of post and you can see the trends: https://hackerbook.dosaygo.com/?view=archive

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lucianbr 10 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> Sometimes it's title. Sometimes it's timing. Sometimes it's more substantial - a chance to rethink, redo, rebrand, rewrite, etc.

How do you choose what to change? No interaction means no feedback.

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keepamovin 10 hours ago | parent [-]

Intuition. Trial and error. Rejection gives you a chance to rethink. Experiment!

Don’t overthink it. Don’t get obstructed by choice.

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mathgeek 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> Intuition

I mean no offense by this, but intuition literally means acquiring knowledge without an explanation. Did you mean experience or are you telling GP that you cannot explain how you do it?

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keepamovin 7 hours ago | parent [-]

No that is not what it means. I did not mean experience; I did not mean that I cannot explain how I do it; I meant what I said: intuition. I can explain how I do it; I can even explain how it works (as far as I think), but I don't really know how it works, and I don't care. I just care that I can do it, and that it works.

	▲	dugidugout 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		They mean to distinguish intuition, which draws on experience and can only be reflected on, from experience, which deals in actionable heuristics. Any appeal to intuition you make will fall on experiential advice when pressed. Intuition _works_ here, but if you mean to share your wisdom, you must translate it through experience, which is the actual concept we communicate through.

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rubslopes 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I'm sorry to bring Reddit culture here, but I can't resist...

Username checks out.

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CuriouslyC 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I'm curious, how do you explain the frequency of stuff that rockets to the front page only to get lambasted in the comments for being a total shitshow? Are there really that many oblivious upvoters in /new who fire off upvotes based on title alone?

	▲	kqr 8 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I have experienced this before (almost universally negative comments, but still many upvotes). In those cases, some people have reached out to me personally to tell me they enjoyed whatever it was and didn't agree with the negative feedback. They didn't comment because they didn't think it was worth engaging with people who clearly didn't get it, and it's fine that not all people get it.
	▲	keepamovin 8 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		A whole bunch of dynamics. Efficient markets require liquidity to measure quality, so expect reactions and counter-reactions. Psychology means people respond to perception over reality, so expect herd action. Ego means success challenges personality, so expect defenses. Probably lots more, too