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With LiberWriter, I targeted forums where our users actually hang out, and gave useful answers to questions, with the URL at the end of the message as a sort of '.signature'.

HN is far, far away from our target audience, so posts here - even on the top of the front page - have gotten me pretty much 0 conversions. That's fine, though.

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Me too. I tried hard here, but I dare not to attaché the URL with every post. I got 0 conversations too, even though part of my target users/customers are here.

Putting your URL at the bottom of every comment is actually against the HN guidelines: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

But yeah, I would think few startups would find the HN community a bullseye.

I know. That's why I only embed URLs when it's relevant to the topic and provide my input to the topic first. I usually got negative points up to -4 which made me so frustrated.

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