[tyleo]

I’ve felt the same. I’ve had two things on the pre-LLM front page after about a month of work each. Those exist in the framework of my personal site which I’d been building out for a year.

I suspect a month of AI accelerated work is still enough to make the front page. I don’t see the competition as steeper. I bet it’s about the same per unit time.

[simonw]

Yeah, that's probably a good way of thinking about this. If your side project took a couple of hours it's not worthy of a Show HN. If it took at least a few days or a few weeks or longer and it's novel (not something many other people have built already) then it's a much better bet.