Getting featured on the HN front page is high on every Indie Hacker’s bingo card, not to mention “hacking Hacker News.” However, we found a way to consistently get to the front page using a repeatable process that you can use too. By Iron Brands.
The article then describes how authors approached their research for ranking on HN:
- Understanding Hacker News
- Our Strategy: The war room
- Side-effects
Authors then explain how you must provide value. As explained, there are two ways to approach this, but without value, no front page. Stay on top of relevant news in your niche that is also relevant to the HN audience. If you want to recreate authors bot, check Adriaan’s Twitter, or feel free to send me a message. Be the first one to act on the news + add perspective to the news item. Obviously, it does not work all the time. We’ve posted enough stuff that we thought was relevant and spent time on that was just not interesting enough. Interesting read!
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