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  "slug": "hacker-news-and-reddit",
  "name": "Hacker News and Reddit",
  "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com",
  "cat": "seo",
  "group": "ship",
  "tagline": "Organic community launch channels",
  "price": "Free. Hacker News sells no placement at all. Reddit sells ads separately, but organic posts in any subreddit cost nothing.",
  "tier": "free",
  "pick": false,
  "what": "Hacker News ranks links by upvotes with a steep time decay, and <code>Show HN</code> is the convention for launching your own work. Reddit distributes through topical subreddits, each governed by its own self-promotion rules and volunteer moderators.",
  "why": "A front-page HN post moves thousands of technically-minded readers in an afternoon and reliably produces backlinks. One well-matched subreddit can outperform every paid channel for a niche publication.",
  "warn": "Both punish marketing tone: HN buries promotional titles and Reddit mods ban accounts with no comment history. Spikes are single-day events, and an HN front page can take down under-provisioned hosting.",
  "install": "Post as Show HN with a plain descriptive title and no adjectives.",
  "category": {
    "key": "seo",
    "name": "SEO, growth & newsletter",
    "desc": "Getting found, and owning the audience once you are.",
    "group": "ship",
    "groupName": "Ship it & keep it alive"
  },
  "freshness": null,
  "health": {
    "ok": true,
    "status_code": 200,
    "final_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/",
    "checked_at": "2026-08-19T00:58:08.071+00:00"
  },
  "corrected_at": null,
  "upstream_changed_at": null
}