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Comment by slater | Hacker News Reader

4 pages with various e-mail forms does not a good "Show HN" make :/

edit to not be too snarky: I expected an actually working site, not a web 2.0-style "we're in beta, enter your e-mail address to be included in our private beta!" page

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snarkyness aside :)

what do you mean? I'm ultimately looking for feedback / questions on the idea based on the info provided in the site. Should i have named the HN post something different than Show HN? I read HN a lot and it seems there's no 100% right way to put your idea / product in front HN.

but yeah, feedback is what I'm after. Not to show of a launched product.

You have very little to show - this looks more like an attempt to get signups, honestly. If you have any real questions, you might want to add those. (For instance, "what (not) to do when offering your own pseudo-money" might be a good topic.) The business model seems odd to me, too, but I hope you have thought about that already...

I guess it comes down to what people expect from a "ShowHN" style post. I want to say that ShowHN posts have been, for the large part, requests for feedback on completed sites.

If you need responses on the validity of your idea, a simple AskHN with the outline of your idea would probably have yielded better results. I had a similar reaction to Joachim, eg "this looks more like an attempt to get signups"

Thanks for that response, and I think you're right.

live and learn right? :)

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