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Show HN that doesn't get flagged

HN's front page drives 10K-100K visitors + 6-12 months of tail traffic. The catch: 90% of Show HN posts get flagged as spam. Here's the structure that survives.

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The playbook

  1. 1
    Title: technical noun + what it does, ≤80 chars

    'Show HN: A CLI for managing 1,200 feature flags' beats 'Show HN: I built the next big thing in DevOps'.

  2. 2
    Lead with the constraint you hit

    'I work on a platform with 1,200 flags. The vendor's dashboard wasn't scaling.' Specific is credible.

  3. 3
    Admit what's still broken

    HN respects honesty. 'Tag editing is read-only because their API doesn't expose it.' Builds trust.

  4. 4
    End with a real question

    'Curious if anyone else has hit the same wall.' Invites comments. Comments boost ranking.

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