How to post on Hacker News

• Submit at 8:00 AM EST. If you miss the window (after 8:20 AM), simply post the day or week after.
• Preferably on Wednesday. Weekends front page are easier to land for example, but Wednesdays seem to be the peak of traffic for HN (more eyeballs).
• Have a great title. That means being relevant and catchy, use capitalization and potentially use slang (a simple “sh*t” in the title can go a long way).
• Be opinionated. Having a strong opinion about something will help create some level of discussion and buzz among readers, which helps getting upvotes.
• Be relevant. HN is a community of hackers and entrepreneurs, so either post about entrepreneurship, technology or the related lifestyle and interests of such kind of people.

• Put the name and the direct URL, no URL shortener.
• As soon as submitted, share the newest page link (http://news.ycombinator.com/newest) on Twitter, GTalk, with your friends on IM and ask for an upvote. Edit: after much experimentation, I may not recommend doing this since after all. It seems that HN protects itself against voting ring and may recognize if your friends are always upvoting you.
• If you get on the front page, update that link to the front page link (http://news.ycombinator.com/),
• Make sure you use separate connections if your team upvote the post (using your mobile phone or doing it from home).

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