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by kalev 952 days ago
Although sometimes too much, I think the way fly.io starts their blog posts with a description of what they do is brilliant. I have no idea what Hoppscotch is and reading the first paragraphs I still don’t.
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Seems to be a trend in hn posts. I guess people are so immersed in their work that they don’t realise others need context
OP shared a URL to a post. Context is in the comments.

HN's submissions are either a URL with a non-editorialised title, or some text (like what you get in Show HN and Ask HN posts) - not both.

> Context is in the comments.

Maybe I'm old fashioned but I'd think a blog post should have sufficient context in the intro in standalone fashion

That's fair but the blog is not an HN post.
If took me until seeing the benchmark comparisons to Postman to realize