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Welcome to Hacker News!

Show HN is more for projects, startups, and stuff like that.

Blog posts shouldn't use that title. What I was saying is self-promoted blog posts usually shouldn't be posted at all.

Most content on HN is here because someone found something they found intellectually interesting and wanted to share it. Self-posted content rarely gets front-paged.

But, with that said, there are exceptions. I don't want to discourage you from writing and blogging and all that good stuff! The community ultimately decides if something is frontpage worthy. I'm just one voice :)