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In 2013 I made this funny website - http://starlogs.net/ [1] - posted it on r/programming, and it was an instant hit: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1c72lb/starwars_git_logs_starlogs/ [2] . Fast forward ten years, I decided to rewrite it completely to fix bugs, make it mobile-friendly, and make it easier for people to contribute, etc. Naturally, when I was done, I submitted a post to r/programming. To my bewilderment, it was banned after about half an hour. I couldn't really make sense of it, so I submitted it again a few days later. It fared better this time and got banned after four hours. I messaged the mods but received no reply. I skimmed through the r/programming rules, but nothing stood out.

Now, this isn't the work of my life by any stretch, but I am really really curious about what might be the cause. I am posting this in the hopes that some smart and/or better-informed folks can demystify this for me. And if it gains traction, maybe an actual mod might chime in too. Thanks!

In 2013 I made this funny website - http://starlogs.net/ [1] - posted it on r/programming, and it was an instant hit: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1c72lb/starwars_git_logs_starlogs/ [2] . Fast forward ten years, I decided to rewrite it completely to fix bugs, make it mobile-friendly, and make it easier for people to contribute, etc. Naturally, when I was done, I submitted a post to r/programming. To my bewilderment, it was banned after about half an hour. I couldn't really make sense of it, so I submitted it again a few days later. It fared better this time and got banned after four hours. I messaged the mods but received no reply. I skimmed through the r/programming rules, but nothing stood out.

Now, this isn't the work of my life by any stretch, but I am really really curious about what might be the cause. I am posting this in the hopes that some smart and/or better-informed folks can demystify this for me. And if it gains traction, maybe an actual mod might chime in too. Thanks!

In 2013 I made this funny website - http://starlogs.net/ - posted it on r/programming, and it was an instant hit: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1c72lb/starwars_git_logs_starlogs/ . Fast forward ten years, I decided to rewrite it completely to fix bugs, make it mobile-friendly, and make it easier for people to contribute, etc. Naturally, when I was done, I submitted a post to r/programming. To my bewilderment, it was banned after about half an hour. I couldn't really make sense of it, so I submitted it again a few days later. It fared better this time and got banned after about four hours. I messaged the mods but received no reply. I skimmed through the r/programming rules, but nothing stood out.

Now, this isn't the work of my life by any stretch, but I am really really curious about what might be the cause. I am posting this in the hopes that some smart and/or better-informed folks can demystify this for me. And if it gains traction, maybe an actual mod might chime in too. Thanks!

Hello HN,

We’re a small software consultancy (https://featurist.co.uk/). We have been very successful writing web software for our clients for some 10 years now. However, we want to gradually transition to working on our own products. It’s more fun and hopefully more profitable too.

This is of course easier said than done. We did some research and figured that before anything else we need to speak to potential customers and understand their real pain points and where new products could help. We have then tried to engage with people directly (via twitter dm and reddit posts) but to no avail so far. It now feels like we’re doing something wrong and we should probably look for some help.

So here are my questions:

- How do consultancies make that hop in general? What are the key insights?

- In our particular case, who are the people that could help and where do we find them?

Thanks!

Artem