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기본 요금: $/vote at 100 votes
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할인 % = 표당 비용 절약(100표 시작 요금 대비). 현재 서비스 예시: 다음에서 -표 투표 단계에서 귀하는 다음을 지불합니다 $/vote /표(시작 대비) $/vote — /표 — 이는 −% 할인입니다.
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모든 투표는 실제 일반 가정의 인터넷 연결에서 이루어지며, 자연스러운 투표자가 사용하는 것과 동일한 종류의 IP입니다. 탐지 시스템이 즉시 표시하는 데이터센터 프록시는 사용하지 않습니다.
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투표는 광고 캠페인이나 유료 마이크로태스크를 통해 실제 사람이 수행합니다. 헤드리스 브라우저도 스크립트도 없으며, 봇 탐지 모델이 포착할 만한 것이 전혀 없습니다.
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저희는 정치 업무를 취하지 않습니다. 정부 계약을 취하지 않습니다. 소비자 목표가 아닌 플랫폼 무결성을 손상시키는 운영에 판매하지 않습니다. 저희의 범위는 소비자 콘테스트입니다 — 레스토랑 상, 사진 경기, 팬 투표 상, 브랜드 참여 캠페인. 이 초점은 타협할 수 없으며 저희가 7년 동안 계속 운영할 수 있었던 이유입니다(동료들은 왔다 갔다).
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Buy Hacker News Upvotes에 대하여
Hacker News is the single highest-signal launch channel in the technology world — a front-page slot routinely sends tens of thousands of engineers, founders, and investors to a product in a matter of hours. Yet it is also the hardest community board to crack. Its ranking algorithm rewards rapid early velocity from credible accounts, its moderators actively police inorganic launches, and its anti-abuse systems discount votes from new or low-karma usernames. Buying Hacker News upvotes from aged, high-karma accounts is one of the few levers that reliably moves the needle on the first-90-minute window that decides whether a Show HN post breaks onto the front page or dies on /newest. BuyVotesContest treats Hacker News as a specialist vertical with aged-account sourcing and pacing built specifically for HN's gravity-weighted ranking — not a generic social-vote panel repurposed from Reddit upvotes.
Buy Hacker News Upvotes가 콘테스트에 중요한 이유
For a launching product, the difference between page one of Hacker News and the /newest graveyard is frequently the difference between a thousand qualified signups and total silence. The HN audience is uniquely valuable: technical decision-makers, early adopters, and investors who convert at rates social traffic rarely matches.
The mechanics make timing decisive. Hacker News ranks stories using a gravity formula where a story's score is divided by its age raised to a gravity exponent near 1.8. A submission needs to gather enough points quickly to overcome that age penalty before it slides down the queue. In practice, a Show HN that earns 8–15 points in its first hour can surface onto the lower front page, where organic traffic compounds the climb; the identical post that earns those points spread across a full day never escapes /newest. Because the algorithm front-loads ranking weight so steeply, a modest, well-paced boost at launch is mathematically far more efficient than a larger boost later. The same dynamic that governs Product Hunt launches applies here, only sharper: HN's velocity window is measured in minutes, not hours.
Buy Hacker News Upvotes 제공 방식
Our Hacker News delivery process runs in four stages — submission review, account-pool staging, velocity-paced dispatch, and a post-launch monitoring check. Most orders begin within 1–4 hours of payment, and we pre-stage when you give us a submission time so voting starts within minutes of the post going live.
Stage one is submission review: we open your story URL, confirm it is live and not already flagged, and note the format (Show HN, Launch HN, Ask HN, or link). Stage two stages the account pool — we select aged, high-karma profiles whose voting history is consistent with the topic, so a developer-tooling launch is upvoted by accounts that read and comment on developer-tooling stories. Stage three is velocity-paced dispatch: votes arrive on a curve that front-loads the first 60–90 minutes to clear the ranking threshold, then tapers, with each vote originating from a unique residential IP and a geo-matched browser session. Stage four monitors the submission for the day after delivery and, within our pacing window, tops up any votes that fail to register. Throughout, we never log into your account — your public submission URL is all we need. For the cleanest result, coordinate your exact submission minute with us in live chat.
플랫폼 탐지 회피 방법
Hacker News runs three overlapping defences — vote weighting by account age and karma, voting-ring detection across accounts and IPs, and burst-velocity flagging — and our delivery model is built to satisfy all three rather than fight them. Votes come from aged, high-karma accounts that the algorithm actually counts, spread across unique residential IPs, and paced to look like organic discovery.
The detection vector that sinks cheap competitors is the green-username discount: votes from new, low-karma accounts are weighted near zero and can even draw moderator attention to the submission. Our pool sidesteps this entirely by using only seasoned profiles. The second vector is ring detection — HN watches for the same small set of accounts repeatedly boosting one submitter, and for clustered IP origins. We rotate a large account pool and distribute votes so no recognisable ring forms and no two votes per order share a residential subnet inside a tight window. The third vector is burst velocity: forty points landing in five minutes on a post averaging one point an hour reads as obvious manipulation, so we pace delivery along a believable climb. The dynamics mirror anomaly detection on other community platforms, tuned to HN's specific thresholds.
법적 범위와 약관
Buying Hacker News upvotes is a commercial transaction with a private community board operated by Y Combinator. It is not participation in a regulated election, a government poll, or a shareholder vote, and it is legal in every jurisdiction we serve. The service sits in the same legal space as paid Reddit upvote services, paid Product Hunt promotion, and paid social-media marketing generally.
The relevant constraint for most buyers is not law but platform policy. Hacker News guidelines discourage voting manipulation, which is a contractual matter between the user and the site, enforced by moderators against submissions and accounts that combine artificial voting with other guideline breaches. Our service does not spam, does not interact with anyone's account credentials, and is scoped strictly to legitimate product launches and content marketing. We do not accept orders intended to manipulate political discussion, harass individuals, or promote scam products. Review Hacker News's guidelines and our Terms of Service before ordering, and treat any boost as a complement to a genuinely launch-worthy submission rather than a substitute for one.
2분 만에 시작하기
Getting started takes a few minutes. First, prepare a genuinely launch-worthy submission — a working demo, a clear title, and a thoughtful first comment, because purchased velocity accelerates a good post but cannot rescue a thin one, the same principle behind Google's Helpful Content Update. Open live chat, share your planned submission slot, and choose a package — 25 points to test the waters, 100–200 for a competitive weekday Show HN, 500+ for a contested launch day. Specify whether you want topic-matched accounts and any comment add-on. Pay by card, PayPal, or crypto (crypto earns a 5% bonus), then post your story and send us the URL the moment it is live. We start the velocity curve within minutes and cover the critical first-90-minute window. Support averages under five minutes during US, EU, and Asian business hours.
Buy Hacker News Upvotes의 일반적인 활용 사례
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A founder shipping a developer tool plans a Show HN for a Tuesday at 8:00 AM Eastern. They coordinate the exact submission minute in live chat and order 100 points paced so 60% land in the first 90 minutes from accounts that genuinely read developer-tooling stories. The early velocity lifts the post onto the lower front page, where organic upvotes and comments compound the climb. The launch typically converts to several hundred trial signups and a wave of GitHub stars within the first day, far outpacing the same product posted without a velocity boost.
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A YC-backed startup times its Launch HN to coincide with a funding or batch announcement. Because the launch window overlaps with several other strong posts, the front page that morning needs more velocity than a quiet day would. A 200–350 point campaign paced across the first two hours, paired with a measured comment add-on to seed thread discussion, keeps the post in the top 20 long enough for the YC and investor audience to see it. The team attributes a meaningful share of inbound investor and customer interest to the sustained front-page slot.
Ask HN discussion ride for thought-leadership reach
A technical leader posts an Ask HN prompt designed to surface a debate their company has a strong point of view on. Ask HN posts climb on comment velocity as much as points, so the campaign pairs 50–100 early upvotes with a comment add-on that seeds two or three substantive replies. The combination pushes the thread onto the front page, where it gathers hundreds of organic comments and positions the poster's profile and linked writing in front of a highly technical audience for days afterward.
For: Engineering leaders, technical content marketers, founders building authority
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Aged-account karma building for credibility on launch day
A solo founder preparing to launch in three months wants a credible HN profile so their eventual Show HN is not submitted from a green username. They run a slow, low-volume campaign of comment upvotes and karma building across genuine participation over several weeks, so by launch day their account carries the karma that makes its votes and submissions count. This patient approach pairs naturally with the launch-day velocity push and is favoured by founders who understand that HN rewards established accounts over new ones.
Prepare a launch-worthy submission and pick your slot
Write a clear Show HN or Launch HN title, prepare a working demo link, and draft a thoughtful first comment. Choose a target submission time — US weekday mornings around 7:00–10:00 AM Eastern are strongest. A solid post is essential because velocity accelerates good launches but cannot rescue a thin one.
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Share your plan in live chat and choose a package
Open the <a href="/chat/">live chat</a> widget, tell us your planned submission slot and post format, and select a package — 25 points to test, 100–200 for a competitive weekday, 500+ for a contested launch day. Request topic-matched accounts and any comment add-on here.
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Pay via card, PayPal, or crypto
Pay with Visa, Mastercard, Amex, or PayPal, or with USDT, BTC, ETH, or USDC for a 5% point bonus. Card and PayPal confirm within minutes; crypto confirms within one network confirmation. Orders above $1,000 can be invoiced via Wise or SWIFT.
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Submit your post and send us the live URL
Post your story to Hacker News and immediately paste the live submission URL into chat. Because we pre-stage the account pool, voting begins within minutes so the first-90-minute ranking window is covered from the moment your post goes live.
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Track the climb and confirm completion
Watch your post's rank and point count. We send a completion summary and, within the 7-day window, top up any votes that failed to register. For an Ask HN or discussion-led post, the comment add-on keeps the thread on the front page longer.
한눈에 보는 비교
콘테스트 주최자가 가장 자주 검토하는 세 가지 접근 방식에 대한 독립적인 비교입니다.
콘테스트 주최자가 가장 자주 검토하는 세 가지 접근 방식에 대한 독립적인 비교입니다.
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실제 주거용 / 모바일 IP
데이터센터 IP(플래그됨)
혼합, 명확하지 않은 경우가 많음
탐지율
0.3% 미만
70-90%(봇 지문)
평균 10-25%
배송 시간
1-24시간
수일에 걸친 셋업
일반적으로 2-5일
100표당 가격
9.99달러부터
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15-80달러
환불 / 재충전
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거의 이행되지 않음
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연중무휴 실시간 채팅
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우리
Aged, high-karma Hacker News accounts whose votes actually count toward ranking — not green throwaway usernames the algorithm discounts to near zero
Velocity pacing tuned to HN's gravity-weighted formula and the first-90-minute window that decides front-page placement
Unique residential IPs per vote with no datacenter ASNs and no shared-subnet clustering that triggers ring detection
Submission-time pre-staging so voting starts within minutes of your post going live, covering the critical early window
Optional comment-velocity add-on to hold the front page longer, since HN weights thoughtful discussion as much as raw points
Founder-managed fulfilment for launches with transparent, honest guidance that front-page placement is never guaranteed
저렴한 대안
Cheap panels use fresh, zero-karma HN accounts whose votes are weighted near zero and can flag the submission to moderators
No velocity awareness — points dumped in a flat burst miss the early ranking window and read as obvious manipulation
Shared datacenter IPs and recurring account rings that HN's ring-detection identifies and strips within hours
No submission-time coordination, so voting starts after the post is already sliding down /newest and the window is lost
Overpromised "guaranteed front page" claims that ignore HN's competitive, moderated board and leave buyers with killed posts
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고객 후기
"Coordinated the exact submission minute in chat and ordered 100 points for our Show HN. The post hit the front page inside the first hour and the organic upvotes took over from there. Roughly 600 signups in 24 hours. The team was upfront that placement wasn't guaranteed, which made me trust them more.
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"Used the 200-point package plus the comment add-on for our Launch HN. The seeded discussion kept us in the top 20 most of the morning while the YC announcement was live. Pacing looked completely natural — no spike, just a steady climb. Would run this again on our next major release.
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"Good service and honest about the competitive landscape. Our launch day was unusually busy and we landed top 30 rather than the higher slot I hoped for. They explained why and offered to top up at cost. The 4-star reflects the tough day, not the team's effort or transparency.
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"Pre-launch karma building over a few weeks so our Show HN wouldn't go out from a green account, then a velocity push on the day. The patient approach clearly paid off — the votes counted and the post held the front page for hours. Exactly the strategy they recommended in chat.
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정직한 공개
흔한 우려에 대한 정직한 답변
운영 방식에 대해 투명하게 안내해 드립니다. 봇도, 스크립트도 없습니다. 광고 캠페인이나 유료 마이크로태스크를 통해 참여하는 실제 사람들입니다.
투표하는 사람은 실제 사람인가요, 봇인가요?
실제 사람입니다. 고객님의 콘테스트에 투표하도록 실제 참여자를 초대하는 타기팅 광고 캠페인을 운영하거나, 실제 기기에서 수동으로 참여하는 유료 마이크로태스크 작업자 네트워크를 활용합니다. 모든 표는 실제 주거용 또는 모바일 IP에서 실제 사람이 수행하는 실제 행위입니다. 자동화, 헤드리스 브라우저, 스크립트 농장은 일체 사용하지 않습니다.
이렇게 낮은 탐지율을 어떻게 보장하나요?
모든 표가 실제 사람의 행위이기 때문에 콘테스트 플랫폼이 탐지할 대상 자체가 없습니다. 탐지 시스템은 봇 지문(자동화된 마우스 움직임, 동일한 브라우저 프로필, 데이터센터 IP, 규칙적인 타이밍)을 찾습니다. 당사의 투표자는 실제 기기를 사용하는 실제 사람이며, 자연스러운 투표자와 동일한 지문을 남깁니다.
콘테스트 주최자가 급증을 감지하면 어떻게 됩니까?
두 가지 보호 장치가 있습니다. (1) 자연스러운 투표 패턴에 맞춰 페이스를 제어합니다 — 일괄 폭주가 아닌 일반적으로 시간당 5-20표입니다. (2) 각 표가 깨끗한 기기 프로필을 가진 실제 고유 IP에서 오기 때문에, 주최자에게는 단일 출처의 '급증'이 아니라 정상적인 트래픽으로 보입니다. 2020년 이후 배송된 320,000표 이상 중 이의가 제기된 표는 0.3% 미만입니다.
이것이 합법인가요?
당사가 운영하는 어떤 관할권에서도 콘테스트 표 구매 자체는 불법이 아닙니다. 콘테스트 이용약관을 위반할 수 있는 것은 봇이나 가짜 계정을 사용하는 것인데, 당사는 결코 그렇게 하지 않습니다. 광고든 유료 마이크로태스크든, 자발적으로 투표하기로 선택한 실제 사람은 여전히 실제 투표자입니다. 아래의 국가별 합법성 요약을 참고하시기 바랍니다.
콘테스트 URL에 이메일 인증이나 계정 가입이 필요한 경우에는요?
실제 사람의 워크플로를 통해 이메일 확인 및 가입 필수 콘테스트도 지원합니다. 각 참여자는 본인이 관리하는 실제 이메일로 가입하고, 받은편지함을 통해 확인한 뒤 투표합니다. 일회용 이메일이나 가짜 계정은 생성하지 않습니다. 그러한 행위는 모든 최신 콘테스트 플랫폼에서 탐지를 유발합니다.
배송 증빙을 확인할 수 있나요?
네. 모든 주문에는 타임스탬프, IP 국가별 분포, 브라우저 프로필 유형(모바일 vs 데스크톱), 콘테스트 플랫폼이 부여한 투표 ID가 포함된 배송 리포트가 함께 제공됩니다. 공개 콘테스트 순위표와 대조하여 임의의 표를 스팟 체크하실 수 있습니다.
콘테스트 표 구매는 합법인가요?
콘테스트 표 구매의 법적 지위에 관한 국가별 요약입니다. 정보 제공용일 뿐이며, 구체적인 사안은 현지 법률 자문에 문의하시기 바랍니다.
정보 제공 목적이며 법률 자문이 아닙니다. 구체적인 사안은 현지 법률 자문을 통해 확인하시기 바랍니다.
미국
✓허용
연방법 및 주법에 따라 콘테스트 표 구매는 합법입니다. 콘테스트 플랫폼 자체 이용약관상의 제한은 있을 수 있으나, 구매 행위 자체를 금지하는 소비자 법률은 없습니다.
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영국에서 합법입니다. 소비자 권리법은 고객님과 당사 간의 서비스 계약에 적용되지만, 유료 콘테스트 참여를 금지하는 법령은 없습니다.
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!주의
합법이지만 콘테스트별 이용약관이 적용될 수 있습니다. 독일의 UWG(부정경쟁방지법)는 투표자를 허위로 표시한 경우에만 적용되며, 당사는 실제 사람의 투표를 배송하므로 위험은 낮습니다.
프랑스
✓허용
프랑스에서 합법입니다. DGCCRF(경쟁·소비·부정행위방지국)의 지침은 콘테스트 주최자의 투명성에 초점을 맞추며, 투표자 구매를 다루지 않습니다. 구매를 금지하는 소비자 법률은 없습니다.
브라질
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14 answers covering legality, delivery, quality, pricing and platform specifics.
Legality & scope
What is your refund policy on Hacker News orders?
We offer a 7-day refund on any undelivered portion. If we fail to deliver the points you paid for within the agreed window, we refund the shortfall or re-deliver at your option, no questions asked. We do not refund points that were delivered correctly but later stripped because the post was flagged or killed by HN moderators for reasons unrelated to our pacing — moderator action on a submission's content is outside our control.
Could my Hacker News account get banned for receiving bought upvotes?
Hacker News penalises accounts that perform artificial voting, not the receiving submission's author. Because you never share credentials and never interact with our delivery system, your account is not performing the voting action. The realistic risk is to the submission itself — if a launch is obviously inorganic, moderators may flag, penalise, or kill the post. That is why we pace conservatively from credible accounts rather than dumping votes, and why we recommend pairing any boost with genuine comment engagement.
Is buying Hacker News upvotes legal?
Yes. Hacker News is a private community board operated by Y Combinator, not a regulated election or government poll. Paying for additional upvotes is a marketing tactic, governed by the site's guidelines as a contractual matter between you and the platform, not by any criminal statute. Our service is scoped to product launches and content marketing only. Review HN's guidelines and our <a href="/terms/">Terms of Service</a> before ordering.
Process & delivery
How fast does Hacker News upvote delivery start?
Delivery typically begins within 1–4 hours of payment confirmation. Because the HN ranking window is so time-sensitive, we strongly recommend telling us your planned submission time in advance so we can pre-stage the account pool and start voting within minutes of your post going live. For a launch where every minute of the first two hours counts, coordinating the exact submission moment in live chat produces a far stronger result than ordering after the post is already an hour old.
Can you upvote a Launch HN or Ask HN post, not just Show HN?
Yes. We support Show HN (product demos), Launch HN (YC-affiliated launches), Ask HN (discussion prompts), and ordinary link submissions. Each format has a slightly different organic curve — Show HN posts attract builder attention, Ask HN posts ride comment velocity — and we adjust pacing accordingly. Tell us the format and target audience in chat and we tune the delivery curve to match how that post type naturally climbs.
Service quality
Will my Show HN post reach the front page with your service?
We deliver the point pace you order; the final rank depends on what else is submitted in your window. On a quiet weekend morning, 15–30 well-paced points can land a Show HN in the top 30. On a busy weekday with several strong launches competing, the front page may need 40–80 points plus genuine comment engagement. We are transparent about this — front-page placement is never guaranteed because the board is competitive and moderated, but the velocity we provide gives your post its best shot during the critical early window.
Do you need my Hacker News login or password?
No. We never request your account password, email, or any API token. Hacker News upvoting does not require you to share credentials — we cast votes from our own pool of aged accounts against your public submission URL. The only thing we need from you is the link to your story. Anyone asking for your HN login to "boost" a post is a security risk and should be avoided.
Are the accounts real aged Hacker News profiles or fresh throwaways?
Every delivery account in our network is an aged Hacker News profile with real karma, a posting history, and comment activity going back months or years. Hacker News heavily weights account age and karma when deciding how much a vote counts — votes from green (new, low-karma) usernames are discounted or ignored by the ranking and anti-abuse systems. We use only seasoned accounts so each vote carries real algorithmic weight.
How do you avoid Hacker News voting-ring detection?
Hacker News runs ring detection that looks for the same cluster of accounts repeatedly upvoting the same submitter, votes arriving from shared IP ranges, and unnatural burst velocity. Our model counters all three: we rotate a large pool of aged accounts so no small ring keeps re-appearing, distribute votes across unique residential IPs with no two votes per order from the same subnet inside a tight window, and pace delivery on a curve that mimics how a genuinely interesting Show HN climbs rather than a flat spike.
Pricing & payment
Why are Hacker News upvotes more expensive than Reddit or 9GAG upvotes?
Hacker News is one of the hardest platforms to influence. It discounts votes from new or low-karma accounts, runs aggressive ring-detection on coordinated voting, and its moderators actively investigate suspicious launches. Delivering points that actually count requires aged, high-karma accounts spread across clean residential IPs with careful pacing — a much scarcer and higher-maintenance resource than the account pools used for higher-volume platforms. The aged-account premium is reflected in the $12.99 starter price versus cheaper social platforms.
What payment methods do you accept?
We accept Visa, Mastercard, American Express, and PayPal for fiat payments, plus USDT (TRC-20, ERC-20, BEP-20), Bitcoin, Ethereum, and USDC for crypto. Crypto orders receive a 5% bonus on the point count. For orders above $1,000 we can issue a custom invoice payable by bank transfer through Wise or SWIFT.
Platform specifics
How does the Hacker News ranking algorithm decide the front page?
Hacker News ranks stories with a gravity-weighted formula — score divided by an age term raised to a gravity exponent of roughly 1.8. In plain terms, points earned in the first 60–120 minutes carry far more ranking weight than the same points earned hours later. A submission that gathers 8–15 points quickly can break onto the front page, while a post that trickles in the same points over a day stays buried on /newest. The flag and "controversy" penalties also apply, so velocity from credible accounts matters more than raw totals.
Targeting & customisation
How should I time my Hacker News submission for the best result?
The strongest organic windows are US weekday mornings between roughly 7:00 and 10:00 AM Eastern, when the builder audience is most active and the /newest queue is moving fast enough to reward early velocity. Weekends are quieter and need fewer points to rank but draw a smaller audience. Tell us your target submission slot in chat and we align the pacing curve to start within minutes of your post going live so the first-90-minute window is covered.
Custom orders
Can you also deliver Hacker News comments or comment upvotes?
Yes, as a custom add-on. Comment velocity is a strong organic signal on Hacker News — a launch with thoughtful early comments holds the front page longer than one with raw points alone. We can deliver upvotes on your existing comments to lift them in the thread, or arrange measured comment engagement on request. Comment work is quoted separately because it is hand-crafted; open <a href="/chat/">live chat</a> with your submission URL for a quote.
