How to post on Hacker News | Wiredcraft

How to post on Hacker News | Wiredcraft

Submit at 8:00 AM EST. If you miss the window (after 8:20 AM), simply post the day or week after.

Preferably on Wednesday. Weekends front page are easier to land for example, but Wednesdays seem to be the peak of traffic for HN (more eyeballs).

Have a great title. That means being relevant and catchy, use capitalization and potentially use slang (a simple "sh*t" in the title can go a long way).

Be opinionated. Having a strong opinion about something will help create some level of discussion and buzz among readers, which helps getting upvotes.

Be relevant. HN is a community of hackers and entrepreneurs, so either post about entrepreneurship, technology or the related lifestyle and interests of such kind of people.

Now there are a couple rules to how upvotes work on HN:

• One upvote per IP address. This means that if we're all voting from the same IP (for example at the office), it just won't be taken in to account. We also need to submit the story from a different IP.
• Direct links to the post don't allow people to vote. The link we have at the bottom of the post for example (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5200847) won't work for upvoting. We need upvotes to be made from the newest page or the front page.

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