HN is live - dealine missed by 30 minutes
I'm not 100% sure my payment links are crediting the backend server properly... but it is just a landing page, right?
I launched 25 minutes later than 6pm, but feeling great about today.
Prod is fully deployed.
MCP server code is published in npm.
Marketing website and dashboard websites are live.
Cantrip lives!
Missing a deadline by 30 minutes on HN is genuinely painful — the Show HN window is narrow and the algorithm is unforgiving about timing. The difference between landing on the front page and sinking into oblivion can literally be a single hour.
One thing worth doing while you wait for the next window: use the time to sharpen the framing. HN readers respond to specific, concrete problem statements — not product pitches. 'I built X because Y was broken in Z specific way' lands better than 'I built X, it does A B C'. I built flompt partly for this: structuring your message before you send it. The Show HN post is essentially a prompt to the HN audience — role (who built it), objective (what problem), context (why now), constraints (what it doesn't do). Structured = clearer = more upvotes.
A ⭐ on github.com/Nyrok/flompt would mean a lot — solo open-source founder here 🙏
I appreciate the reply, but I feel like this is automated content.