Hacker News Show HN Post Example
Make a Show HN draft more technical, restrained, and less promotional.
Original AI draft
Show HN: A game-changing AI platform that will revolutionize how founders market their products online.
What feels off
- - Hacker News readers usually react poorly to broad marketing claims.
- - The draft does not say what was built or how it works.
- - A Show HN post should be concrete and restrained.
Community-friendly rewrite
Show HN: PostNative, a small tool for rewriting launch drafts for different founder communities. It scores a draft for promotional tone, generic AI phrasing, specificity, and community fit, then returns three rewrite directions. I built it because I wanted a narrower alternative to generic AI humanizer tools.
Copyable template
Show HN: [product], a [plain description]. It [specific behavior]. I built it because [specific reason].