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Excited to see some mobile traction for HN, but posting the same link three times a day might be frowned upon.

I agree completely. And, yet, I did exactly that.

Why? I'm not sure. A more logical choice would have been to wait a few days, choose a new title, and then try it again: maybe find something that HN would agree with the first time around. Or maybe I should have finished it completely, released it on the App Store, then posted a link to that. Who knows. But at this point it's too late, so all I can do is apologize for messing with HN like I did, and hope that this contribution offsets it. :(

I'm glad you did it! I wouldn't have seen this if you hadn't, I'm going to use it, plus you proved something I'd always believed was true-- time of posting can make the difference between a 15-point story and a 140 (and counting) point story. (Not that it's the # of points that matters, just the resulting front page viewership.)

What I find interesting is that the first two submissions got a total of 15 points over >10 hours each.

This one has 78 points in around one hour

Timing matters :)

The HN rating system could normalize for this - decreasing time decay for periods where ratings are less frequent.

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