Hacker News — Show HN

Why launch on Hacker News — Show HN?

Developer tools and technical products. The audience is engineers, technical founders, open-source maintainers, and the listing is a community. No badges, no launch-day theatre. A plain Show HN post that explains what you built and why. If it lands, the traffic is enormous and the feedback is blunt. If it does not, it is gone in an hour.

How to submit to Hacker News — Show HN

1. Make sure your product page is live, fast and clear about who it is for.
2. Prepare a short tagline, a longer description, a logo and two or three screenshots.
3. Open the Hacker News — Show HN submission page and create the listing.
4. Fill in the audience, category and pricing fields as accurately as you can; they decide who sees the listing.
5. After publishing, check the live URL and add it to your own launch page or press kit.

What to prepare

• A one-line description and a 50–100 word summary.
• A square logo and a 16:9 screenshot of the product in use.
• A public pricing page, even if the answer is “free”.
• A founder or maker profile so people can see who built it.
• A tagged URL so you can measure the referral traffic.

Pricing and link policy

Pricing: Free.

Link policy: Nofollow. Check the platform before you pay; rules change, and the value is the audience and referral traffic, not only the link attribute.