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Ask HN: how to looking for people eval my idea

3 pointsby momofarmabout 3 years ago
I&#x27;m looking for people trying my prototype website.<p>What I am trying to solve is that when we go throghhiking &#x2F; multiday hiking, we will carry a lot of stuff in backpack(around 12kg ~15kg). If not pack properly, the backpack will pull back, even worse the muscle will get hurt. Some even have hip bruise.<p>There are several problem I encounter: 1. lots of forums have policy on banning self promotion, so you can&#x27;t just post it. 2. even you found someone has similiar problem, ask him nicely and send him the link, he just ignore you and buy a new backpack. 3. for SNS network like twitter &#x2F; Instgram, the search function seems broken? I found very few posts on it, which I thought should be quite common.<p>Not sure how to solve this. I can do code but this is not what I am good at. Anyway, its just a prototype, I can throw away and work on something else.<p>prototype: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;johnnycabin.xyz&#x2F;<p>BE WARNED: its a prototype, so its going to be ugly.

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PaulHouleabout 3 years ago
You can get away with self promotion online if you do it in a culturally sensitive way. It is worth learning the conventions in any place you want to post things.<p>For instance in Hacker News new users frequently don&#x27;t know that links posted in the text for a submission aren&#x27;t clickable. If you spent a day looking at the new page you&#x27;d do better because you&#x27;d see about ten other people make the same mistake.<p>If you want to submit a link to HN just submit a link. If you want to submit ten links to HN you&#x27;d better submit twenty links, ten of which are to somebody else&#x27;s site! That&#x27;s the way we do it.<p>You might say &quot;I want to explain my page&quot; and I&#x27;ll say it is a lesson I&#x27;ve learned the hard way and occasionally relearn that artifacts have to be able to explain themselves. For instance I make these art objects that have a physical manifestation (stuck on my office door) and a digital manifestation, say<p>HTTPS:&#x2F;&#x2F;GEN5.INFO&#x2F;$&#x2F;WU$.D:TC:4<i>2LW</i>1Q&#x2F;<p>When I show them to people I find they still don&#x27;t do a good job of explaining the object (&quot;What are the Invictus games?&quot;, &quot;Is there a physical object involved? Where is it? How can I get one?&quot;, &quot;Why did you use characters in the URL that cause HN to not light up the URL?&quot;) so I go back to the drawing board...
momofarmabout 3 years ago
there is another weird phenomena I seen on online forums.<p>Normally, get a not so comfort backpack should quite common, I knew lots of people try lots of backpacks and just can&#x27;t get the right one. I suspect most of them is because of they pack their bag not (physically, or said in mechanically) wrong.<p>But I rare seen related content online, only few have issue with bruise hips. (hips!? really, how much you carry could cause bruise hips?)<p>I wonder if the search technology nowadays are broken (I use google, but sometimes I pay some visit to duckduckgo but get quite the same result)