HACKER Q&A
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Is HN a right place for links to handmade web?


I posted a link to our website, which was created in 2024 without JS, CSS, or inline styles. Personally, I find this interesting because the website looks fairly normal, and this was achieved through a dozen HTML hacks that most developers don't know these days.

I believed such handmade web would align with the HN community, and someone even upvoted the post before it was flagged.

So, my question is, why wasn't HN the right place for such post?

  👤 petercooper Accepted Answer ✓
Someone didn't like it and flagged it. It happens. I've just "vouched" for it as I took a look and I genuinely find the idea quite cute/amusing (and I still host my late Uncle's FrontPage built site from 20 years old) but it may well get flagged again.

Fun bit of trivia: I noticed MS lost the FrontPage trademark not long ago, so maybe it's time for someone to build a new FrontPage ;-)

👤 ThrowawayR2
Possibly because it's a homepage for a for-profit business, making it look like you're trying to advertise or SEO. There are a lot of spam submissions to HN these days.

Create a similar page that doesn't contain any commercial content and follow the guidelines for Show HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html) and you might get more interest from HN readers.