How to get on main page on News Ycombinator
Stumbling many sites, you'll find many articles about 'how to get featured or on main page of Digg, Stumble Upon and may be Reddit".
However you won't find that kind of posts about Ycombinator (The special part of news for Hackers and people interested on start ups). So I'm writing that one!
The Difference between News.Ycombinator and other social bookmarking sites
While other and most social bookmarking sites are based on the number of connection a user have (number of friends, fans, submission, ratio of activity..) it's different on News.ycombinator! There's no friends, no fans, no shouts and no other things. So it's all on the title?
Let's focus on the main page!
If you focus on the main page of news.ycombinator which means the hot news, you'll notice that you can read just near each news, the domain of the website you'll be redirected to.
This is the first important part! Submission from sites like TechCrunch, Coding Horror and other famous news sites, have more probabilty to get a thumb up and reach the main page.
But this don't mean connections aren't important on YC! If you think so, then why does YC have a Karma for each user. This shows the activity, the success... or something else.
However, this won't make a difference! I was watching a submission by brfox, whose Karma is only 2 and got his story on main page! (But the domain is Ycombinator!!)
So if you are submitting to Ycombinator, take care of!
Finally when you are with YC it all depends on the story!
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