My post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37956065 got no traction when I posted it and quickly disappeared from "/new" without many people noticing it. The next day, I received an email that this post was entered into the second chance pool. Then sometime later, it got picked for the front page and led to a good amount of community participation! Thanks to the second chance pool, I received several interesting demo submissions to my hobby project!
My post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37956065 got no traction when I posted it and quickly disappeared from "/new" without many people noticing it. The next day, I received an email that this post was entered into the second chance pool. Then sometime later, it got picked for the front page and led to a good amount of community participation! Thanks to the second chance pool, I received several interesting demo submissions to my hobby project!