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Comment by jedberg | Hacker News Reader

Here is a crazy idea, kinda like how subreddits on reddit work. Use the separate Launch HN page[0], with just the launch threads (one per company). Put the one that is currently at the top on the main home page (or maybe two, or maybe treat it like a stack and pop the top on a regular basis skipping ones that have already appeared).

That way people who are interested in launches (like me) can check out the launch page, but everyone else will still see the most popular launches. Then you don't have to guess which ones will be popular.

Maybe once a week have an automatic summary thread for all the ones that didn't make the home page similar to what you describe above, with one per comment.

As for you being the editing bottleneck, why not teach the partners how to do the editing so they can be the first step, and then maybe you just do a final pass after the partners have hopefully mostly gotten it good?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/launches

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> Use the separate Launch HN page

I’ve never even seen that page until you posted it, and it doesn’t show up in the top or bottom nav bars. If this was linked up top like Show and Ask, then I’d look at it way more regularly.

Add it to the top bar, have a random one display (not posted, but pinned/displayed) at the top of the front page for each load. Considering it’s HNs core purpose I don’t think anyone would complain about having a sticky random Launch HN at the top during launch season?

Some stuff is not documented, /launches is one of them.

https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented

The launches page is in this section:

https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#hacker...

"Undocumented" is a bit much, "hard to find" is more accurate.

Bunch of pages (including /launches) is listed on the "Lists" page (https://news.ycombinator.com/lists), which is linked in the bottom navbar.

Ok, good idea—thanks! Will consider.

(Except for the partners part. I don't have that kind of access!)

I think what jedberg's idea was is that the partner that mentors that specific startup helps the startup with their first draft. They know the startup well, and (presumably) know what works well on HN too. Saving you a bunch of time "mentoring" the startup founders with HN etiquette.

Unless you already got that, in which case, ignore this message ;-)

My guess is that many partners are not hardcore users and will make silly mistakes, like using "Amazing! Amazing! Amazing!" to highlight how amazing is the new startup.

Perhaps the error will not be so obvious :) , but a good HN post need a balance of technical and not technical stuff.

Ha!

I was already typing this before your comment articulated it excellently.

Dang, I am assuming how people see comments is randomised? So the part 2 of the comment (those that did not make it will all have an equal chance to be seen).

Assuming it is not asking for too much customisation, these summary threads can go down much slower than the usual one person Launch HN.

That’s a simple and elegant solution. I believe this is much like how threads prefixed ‘Ask HN’ already work, too?

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