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Comment by misterbishop | Hacker News Reader

No disrespect to the author, but how do projects like this trend on HN? It has 5 commits all from the same day last summer. There's very little activity or engagement with the project to date. Something like this happens almost every week.

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Someone who isn't the author stumbles across it, thinks maybe HN will appreciate it, and is correct.

except OP didn't just stumble, they submitted it a few months ago (with little interest)

Maybe OP should comment why they submitted it/what they find notable about it

because I was writing some golang code to play with a Novation Launchpad Mk1 (https://github.com/FMMT666/launchpad.py was very useful)

and I was searching what kind of "rhythm machine" i could interface with

and I found it interesting back then because

a) it's text based

b) it's in golang

> why submit it

the reason I post to HN is twofolds

a) it might interest other people

b) other people might post similar projects and I will learn about these projects. (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37313652 )

HN sometimes invites people to resubmit submissions that got little attention.

How many commits over what period do you suggest before a project hits HN?

A project does not have to be active to be worthy of a post on HN, just cool.

yeah, the instant upvotes are a bit weird. And the increase in dupes generally

it's an "Invitation to repost"!

A friend of mine had some content reach the front page maybe 6 months ago. I don't know this for 100%, but I think for cool projects that dang thinks are of interest to the community, he will post them to the front page manually some time after the original post date when (speculation here) the front page needs some interesting content. When something like this happened to him, my friend's post date got reset, but the votes and comments it may have received while it was waiting remained. This might explain the instant votes mentioned.

Nice little project, I'm glad to have seen it. Music generation stuff is always of interest to me.

edit: Saw this on another thread. Seems to line up with what I was talking about: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308

>And the increase in dupes generally.

Says someone frequently posting dupes[0][1], and even their own dupes[2][3].

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37296548

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37078576

[2]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37254136

[3]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37254147

Those are mostly filling in unposted articles to stop new threads starting up and instead direct to where the discussion is already happening. Because the dupes are out of control sometimes

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