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Another item for the endless startup checklist -- "is my landing page title informative enough to serve as an HN link?"

Which is really just a more specific form of "Does my landing page actually tell newcomers what's actually going on here?"

Except the title is barely visible in most browsers these days, where it has to fit in a tab.

If we go by this criterion, Y Combinator would've failed and Hacker News would've barely passed.

They haven't been doing that as much lately, especially if the original title was either uninformative or linkbaity.

It would have been better as a ShowHN post where the mods give you a lot of editorial leeway.