Show HN in 5 Days: The Post I've Been Rewriting Since Day 1
I'm submitting to Show HN on April 7th or 8th. That's 5 days from now. I've been drafting this post since day 3 of building. The first draft said: "Show HN: Korean web scraping API suite." That fel...

Source: DEV Community
I'm submitting to Show HN on April 7th or 8th. That's 5 days from now. I've been drafting this post since day 3 of building. The first draft said: "Show HN: Korean web scraping API suite." That felt like shouting into a void. The second said: "Show HN: I built 13 scrapers for Korean websites with no English docs." Better. But who's the "I" here? Why should anyone care? The third: "Show HN: Naver, Melon, Daangn β Korean data APIs for a market that doesn't have them." Technical. True. Still felt like a product pitch, not a story. What Show HN Actually Is If you've spent time on Hacker News, you know the pattern: a Show HN post lives or dies in the first 30 minutes. If it catches velocity, it hits the front page and drives hundreds of clicks. If it doesn't, it disappears in 10 minutes with 2 points. The posts that work are almost never "look at my product." They're "here's something that didn't exist before, here's exactly what I measured, here's what surprised me." Numbers help. Specific