Hacker News (Show HN)
Show HN is the section of Hacker News where people share things they have made.
How a launch works
You post a Show HN link with a short explanation; ranking comes from community votes, and the comments are often frank technical feedback.
At a glance
- Type
- Community
- Best for
- Developer tools, open source and technical products that can be tried right away.
- Link to your site
- Dofollow (on the 2 listings we checked)
- Price
- Not checked yet
- Site last checked
- Oct 24, 2026
Link type read from the website link on: listing 1, listing 2. A platform can treat paid or featured listings differently.
In these lists: Launch sites that give a dofollow link, Where to launch a developer tool, Communities to share your product, Where to launch an open-source project.
Hacker News (Show HN) alternatives
Visit Hacker News (Show HN)Free tools for your Hacker News (Show HN) launch
All free tools- Launch checklistEverything to do before, on and after launch day, ticked off as you go.
- Launch time plannerSee your launch moment in every major time zone.
- Character counterCount characters and check them against title, tweet and app store limits.
- Social preview checkerSee the card your link shows on X, LinkedIn and Slack, and what to fix.
- UTM builderTagged links for every channel on launch day, so you know which one worked.
- Meta tag checkerCheck the title, description, canonical and indexing tags Google reads.