Hi, this is kind of a dead thread now but I wanted to reply anyway.
We reposted this again today here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2945981
And it got to the front page and I was getting some really good feedback before it got downvoted to hell for being a duplicate.
I would suggest that the fact it made it to the front page and got a bunch of good comments is evidence that people were in fact interested in it, and getting traction on HN is sometimes a matter of submitting things at the right time with the right title.
I don't want to go to reddit or "pivot drastically" - I want feedback from other coders and startup participants here on HN, and your suggestions are entirely unhelpful. Maybe a better question is why does it bother you so much to see resubmissions? You think I am making HN worse by my multiple submissions, I think you are making it worse by not taking the time to look at and critique the work of a fellow HN reader. If you had the time to comment on how much my submissions annoyed you, you could have taken the time to offer some feedback on my app.