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Show HN: Paul Graham Essays, Searchable

7 pointsby Beefinover 2 years ago

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dangover 2 years ago
You&#x27;ve posted a few of these now, including:<p><i>Show HN: 2023 Market Outlooks, Searchable</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=34849149" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=34849149</a><p><i>Epstein Documents, Fully Searchable</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=34838422" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=34838422</a><p>There are a couple problems. First, these aren&#x27;t valid Show HNs. Searchable databases of reading material count more as reading material than projects people can play with (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;showhn.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;showhn.html</a>). They do have an interactive aspect, of course, but not enough to make them valid Show HNs. That&#x27;s why we took Show HN off the title of the Epstein one.<p>The second problem is that you&#x27;re pitching your Show HN at the wrong scope. It needs to be at the whole product level—not at the specific example level. That is, you need something like &quot;Show HN: Collie.ai - &lt;brief product description&gt;&quot; with a link to <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;collie.ai&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;collie.ai&#x2F;</a> and some text that gives the backstory of how you came to work on this, explains what&#x27;s different about it (this is critical!) and gives some technical detail. That&#x27;s what&#x27;s interesting here.<p>If you just post an example like the current one, people will not see how it&#x27;s any different from googling &quot;site:paulgraham.com&quot; and the thread will only be a generic discussion about PG essays or Epstein rabbitholes or whatever the example is. That&#x27;s not interesting, it&#x27;s not about your startup, and it&#x27;s not in the spirit of Show HN. I hope this helps!
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