Show HN: I analyzed why my post got 0 votes and built this

[fwystup]

Maybe you've had this experience too: You build something you're proud of, post it on HN with your low-karma account, and... crickets. Zero votes, zero comments. That's what happened to me last Monday. I posted my coding tool (XaresAICoder - an open-source browser IDE) that I'd built with AI assistance. In my mind it was revolutionary. On HN? Completely ignored. Then I wondered: How many other potentially great projects suffer the same fate? What "hidden gems" are we missing because they come from low-karma accounts? So I built hn-gems (with help from Claude and my own XaresAICoder). It works in two stages:

Continuous scanning: Analyzes all new HN posts from accounts with <100 karma, scoring them for technical merit, originality, and problem-solving value AI curation: Every 12 hours, an LLM deep-dives into the top 10 candidates, checking GitHub repos, documentation quality, and actual utility

The result is what you see at the link - a curated list of overlooked quality posts that deserve more attention. The interesting part: I barely wrote any criteria. I just told Claude "open source good, pure commercial bad, working demos good" and let it figure out the scoring. The AI assessment varies slightly each run, which actually makes it more interesting. GitHub: https://github.com/DG1001/hn-gems

Is this useful? Do you have ideas how to improve this tool if necessary?

(And yes, my XaresAICoder that got 0 votes? The AI thinks it's actually pretty good. I'll take that as a win.)

[PaulHoule]

Hate to break it to you but karma doesn’t count for anything, although always spamming articles from your own blog is the rookie mistake that gets your posts to start out [dead]

Take a look at /new, choked with AI products and “Ask HN: How come Vibe Coding Doesn’t Work For Me Although It Works For Everyone Else?” Or “Show HN: I Vibe Coded Something and It Almost Works”, “Is MCP really that evil program from Tron?”, etc.

The cheat code for August 2025 is it’s not about AI and if it an AI-oriented product it doesn’t say so right out front.

[fwystup]

Thanks for the feedback — definitely not meant as spam. It’s open source, not a commercial blog. Just wanted to surface some fresh ideas that might otherwise get missed. Really appreciate the tip!

[dbaman]

Maybe I'm missing something, but should the "discuss on HN" hyperlink on your page goto the Show HN entry being referenced?

It seems to go to a HN post that is something else entirely??

[fwystup]

You're right — I totally missed that. Fixed it, please reload.