Hi, I'm the developer of rdrview. I posted the project as a "Show HN" a week ago or so but it got no traction, so I'm really surprised to find it on the front page today. I'll be happy to answer any questions you may have.
There's a lot of randomness in what happens to get noticed or get traction on HN. We have various tricks to try to mitigate that. One is that we allow a small number of reposts if an article hasn't had significant attention yet (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html).
I'm the kind of user that just lurks in the front page, so I don't really have any right to complain if my work doesn't get noticed by others. I'm glad that it did though.
> we allow a small number of reposts if an article hasn't had significant attention yet
Does that apply to Show HN too?
[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/commandline/comments/jaluzg/firefox...
Did you find a way to deal with this hindrance ?
It won't do anything for the TechCrunch case you describe, because it only fetches the one webpage you point it to (and any redirections).
Did you try pretending to be a search engine crawler, for an idea..?
So far, I've never run into this problem myself. If I did, I think I would use tor.