HN and PH audience is 99% of Marketing and / or Tech people.
Coincidentally, those people make product for Marketing and Tech people, and of course promote on website visited by Marketing and Tech people.
But basically anything outside of those two realms feels completely under-addressed by SAAS:
- industry - public services - waste management - etc
mostly "unsexy things".
That's why you should probably avoid posting here if you don't want copycats.
Serve a totally different market, and make it to the front page of that market's HN. Then you're in business.
You can post to HN as a victory lap/vanity metric when you've got a moat of traction. :)
I hear this a lot. Couldn't be that everyone (makers/founders) addresses these PH/PH spaces because they are packed with early adopters instead of the other industries where every new innovation will be taken with FUD?
And that's the cause that it's under-addressed. It's hard to convince "classic" industries to adopt new SW stuff and new paradigms.