a single source, nothing corroborates it
Use comments as the link surface posts deny you
Comments take clickable links where text submissions do not, and a good one is read by thousands, which makes them the most underrated distribution on the site. Formatting the link in the community's own bracketed footnote style marks you as a regular and lifts it somewhere more visible.
The method
- 01
Treat comments as the underrated distribution surface on Hacker News: individual comments can be seen by thousands and, unlike text posts, they let you include clickable links.
- 02
Format links using the site's own bracketed-footnote convention, which both signals you're a regular and lifts the link into a more visible spot.
Sources
- How to get 30,000 Hacker News visitors to your websiteHarry Dry · Marketing Examples · Lesson 2 - Comments are underappeciated · undated
the second source
Three plays a week, for the phase you are in
No roundup of links, no news. Three tactics more than one builder arrived at separately, with the numbers each one returned and the disagreements left in.
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