[chockchocschoir]

You seem to have only added links to your own written content, that's a no-no. Read the guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Specifically:

> What to Submit: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

Is what you're submitting something "good hackers would find interesting"?

I submit links in the hope of sharing some novel/interesting information with others, and to spawn discussions around a subject I find interesting.

> but beyond that does it really translate into commerce and connections for people ?

Sometimes, for some people, it does. But still, rule #1 is that it should be interesting, then the commerce and connections (from HN and other sources) will follow automatically.

[mindcrime]

Yeah, self-promotion is fine here, but if someone is only posting links to their own stuff, I'd say "you're doing it wrong."

[thallukrish]

Unless you are outright promoting commercial stuff, I feel for writers who are relatively unknown and would like to get feedback on what they write, HN is a good place to post links.

This is not different from posting interesting links you find. It is not self-promotion as you are not selling anything here. Instead you are trying to see if the content resonates with others and kickstarts a discussion.

In fact, I see it as no different from the comments we are writing here.