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Can anyone point me to a ShowHN first post policy documentation?
9 points by upwindchange 1 day ago | 9 comments
edit: project link is https://github.com/upwindchange/Autai

I had an open source project launching but I found out that I cannot make ShowHN post, the explanation given to me is very vague, I am not sure what should I do to get myself qualified? Is there some quantized instruction like "how many days the account should be registered" or "how many posts/comments/upvotes" the account should get qualified? Thank you for your guidance.

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I've encountered a similar situation, so this post was very helpful. When I tried to post, I encountered the following message:

"We're temporarily restricting Show HNs because of a massive influx, mostly by users who aren't yet familiar with the site or its culture. You're welcome on HN! Take some time to get to know the community, become a good contributor, and then it will be fine to post an occasional Show HN. Here are some links to get you started: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html"

Based on the suggestions in this series of posts, I'm considering sending an email to hn@ycombinator.com.

Thank you.


https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22336638


Thank you, the second link is very helpful. I've read the first link before, not finding answer to my question, that is why I wrote my post and asked.

Can you tell us what the actual message is?

You can send an email to hn@ycombinator.com. They tend to respond promptly.

Thank you for the tip, I will send them my project.

>I had an open source project launching but I found out that I cannot make ShowHN post

FYI, this is because a lot of ShowHN had turned into low quality slop. Not suggesting that it is, but if you do think your project could be slop, consider not posting it here.

This is not just the first stop in promoting your resume project or whatever random open source library. This is for showing _interesting_ projects to the community to get feedback.


I've been working on this project for close to one year and reached the first POC, which is a significant devote of engineering time for me. Though it is still a POC release, I am still proud that I can pull this off: https://github.com/upwindchange/Autai

Looks cool! Want me to post it for you? If you have a message I can attach, I'd be happy to.

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