I submitted two links today, one of my app's launch, the other an article in GeekWire about the app. Neither lasted more than a few seconds on the front page.<p>Am I doing it wrong?<p>Edit: this one didn't even get on the front page.
This is probably the first HN readers have heard about your app, and it doesn't appear to be backed by a larget company, so they probably just skimmed the link in the new list and didn't even click on it.<p>One suggestion would have been to title it "Show HN: My first iOS app, real life scavenger hunts, covered in Geekwire", so at least it would make this ask section, where the links get a little bit more of a chance for upvotes.<p>Neither of your submissions had any upvotes, so I'm guessing it just got pushed off by a rush of other news.<p>In particular, for the last few weeks here, the front page has been overwhelmed with one story in particular, so startup launches and programming topics are going to fall by the wayside - it may have just been a bad time to launch on HN.
I noticed that I tend to get upvotes for posting genuinely interesting articles.
Or at least articles that I <i>think</i> are going to be interesting (and from a good source). The posting policy here encourages value adding tech links.<p>Most of them are from tech news sites and out of 5 links I would post, 4 of them will get 2-3 karma and drop off very quick and 1 might get 20+ karma.
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: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2864185" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2864185</a>
I'm not 100% sure how it works, but I think the mods are very trigger happy when it comes to deleting content that they don't judge to be appropriate. This has a positive effect on maintaining the quality of the overall posts, but is a negative when one person's opinion shuts down a potentially interesting topic.<p>I think you erred by trying to make two posts about the same thing in one day that. That might be something that gets you flagged.