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>Why did RouteGuru never submit to Hacker News? Did they submit to Reddit, or Digg? How was I supposed to have heard of them?

Presumably, their target audience is in India, so expecting them to post to sites mostly frequented by Europeans and Americans doesn't make too much sense.

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> mostly frequented by Europeans and Americans doesn't make too much sense.

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/news.ycombinator.com?p=tgraph&...

Alexa - About 9 % Traffic from India. 2nd to United States.

Collectively, users of those three sites are mostly European and American. And if only 9% of HN users are American, then yes, it does make sense that they didn't target this site.

Correction: "And if only 9% of HN users are Indian..."

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