Ask HN: Does show HN has spam filter? because our post never showed up
2 kathir05 4 9/1/2025, 6:58:41 AM
Recently we went live with our product https://huntyourtribe.com
Our platform is a very new and novel approach towards professional networking. Our Text message as well didn't have any marketing content. Just "Why", "What", "Who" we built this for
We submitted it to HN but it seems this is not listed for the public and not sure where it stands. HN is a very knowledge provoking platform and we want to contribute to your oxygen. Kindly guide us if we are missing something. No reply from hn@ycombinator.com
In this ASK HN post, we thought we have to add little context about huntyourtribe.com, because we really have no clue why our last week Show HN post didn't showup in public page. If we see "new and novel approach" as marketing heavy then, happy to remove that as well.
- One submission 19 days ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44879608 This is clearly promotional.
- A previous one 4 days before that https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44839405 which is a blog post. It also has a single comment and it's from rkwap (In their bio: "Building http://huntyourtribe.com" and the account has no submissions and only this single comment).
So your submissions are clearly marketing and promotional. This isn't bad in itself; people are allowed to submit their own projects. It's also not a problem to say things like "new and novel approach", though I must say that it sounds exactly like an advertisement.
But the problem is that there's an important guideline [0] on HN that says:
You are not posting "your own stuff part of the time". You are posting only your stuff, which is considered self-promotion and is not the focus of HN.[0] The guidelines are here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html