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http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

If you are asking about moderator decisions the place to ask is info@ycombinator.com - it's gotten quick and intelligent replies to me when I asked.

I suspect that it has something to do with a very busy time for YC and the landing page you linked to looks like a bad Spanish SME selling something to clueless small businesses - I had to scroll all the way down to find you are actually open source and on GitHub

I am not saying you are the above - just your website does not sell you very well. I would look at Drupal.org for inspiration perhaps - emphasise community and open source - and really really really dump the semi-porn surprised looking woman and laptop. 99dollars on 99 designs will do far far more - or just ask on HN lots of good designers around who may be willing to help

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I was just about to say the same thing. The stock photo looks ammeter and spammy. That linked page looks like a template. The home page of the domain looks great and I would have linked to that with treating it more like a launch.

Also, there does not seem to be anything groundbreaking or 'newsworthy' about the submission. You are just looking to get your product more customers, not looking to start a discussion.

"Also, there does not seem to be anything groundbreaking or 'newsworthy' about the submission. You are just looking to get your product more customers, not looking to start a discussion."

Well, I think I have even more to learn about HN and netiquette in general. The original post was a "Show HN" ... what I was supposed to write to start a discussion?

How about making it a launch announcement and not just a feature update page? Your product is not a large popular project like coffeescript or ruby, thus version update announcements for products like yours are not newsworthy.

Maybe if your product is groundbreaking or has a unique value proposition would not be marked as spam.

Tell your story

I never dig in to your about page but you have seemingly taken a journey that is in itself iteresting to HN - you started working at company X and wrote some OSS software that was useful. You and others kept improving it at nights I guess, then it broke out of one company and is used at many - how did that happen? Who is the customer you realised it was not just friends and family.

You set up on your own - a big thing round here, and you did so supporting OSS software.

If you want some interest can I suggest a three part blog post on how you and your team got started, when you broke out of just the one company and when you broke into a start up - and keep it about you and your colleagues - the actual product is a mcguffin - only tell us the parts about the pAinful lessons of test coverage or the inabity to remotely diagnose that meant a 2 am drive to another city

Tell us your story.

And redo that template :-)

"The stock photo looks ammeter"

I wonder what an ohmmeter stock photo looks like ...

I'm going to try and resist the potential pun chain here.

I lack the capacity to resist.

thank you for your advice, I just wrote to info@ycombinator.com

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