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Comment by danso | Hacker News Reader

Getting on the HN front page is a crapshoot...it's only partially related to the content of the submission and the headline, and strongly related to what else is trending and who happens to be checking the 'New' links. Everytime I think I'm being deliberately ignored, I think of the time poor Jeremy Ashkenas had to submit a PHP-related link just to get noticed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2864185

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Thanks for the reply, danso, I thought I might be in the Cone of Silence. Any thoughts on how to get there without being spammy?

I've been reading HN regularly for several years, so it feels a little weird to finally have something to say and have it just disappear like that.

It's just luck, I think...probably only 1 out of 20 of the links I submit get more than a few upvotes.

In regards to your app submission, the title does sound too spammy...and the content is probably a turn off for most HN users, who don't like having to actually log in/download something before finding out what it does. I'd consider writing a blog post that walks step-by-step through some of the technology/code you used to implement your app...Most people probably aren't initially excited by a treasure hunt app, but many of us hackers always like to be inspired by novel ways to use image recognition and/or GPS.

That's what I was thinking the geekwire article would help with. But yeah, a tech article is a great idea, thanks!

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