off topic. I am the author. I am wondering if this submission had been flagged. Fogscreek's post about Trello http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3001173 has 7 votes, but it's on the front page ranked 19.

This was submitted at roughly the same time, and has 13 votes. But it's ranked ~50 on the second page.

I just want to know if I unknowingly violated some rules. I'd want to avoid that next time.

Anybody knows?