Get listed on Hacker News

news.ycombinator.comCommunity and maker sitesGeneral (accepts AI tools)A · Top pick

At a glance

Cost to list: Free Show HN post; ranked by upvotes; links followed only once on front page (
Free listing: Yes
Cheapest paid: –
Featured price: –
Fast-track price: –
Link type: Some listings dofollow
Which plan gets the link: mixed (see link_evidence)
Badge required: Not stated
Time to get listed: –
Launch format: Not stated
Voting: Yes
Login needed: No
CAPTCHA: No
Submit form: native form

Our take

Show HN on Hacker News is the section where makers present projects to a developer-heavy community of early adopters. Posting a Show HN is free through the site's own submit form. Links are a confirmed mix - some pass SEO value, some do not, and Hacker News sees about 2 million monthly search visits, led by the US, along with more than 45k AI-search citations.

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Reach and visibility

What this directory reaches today, and how often AI assistants quote it. Numbers come from Ahrefs, pulled 8 Oct 2026.

Monthly visitors

1M+/mo

Ahrefs organic traffic

Authority

DR 80–100

Ahrefs Domain Rating

AI citations

1k+

quoted in AI answers

Referring domains

84,889

sites linking in

AI search visibility

How often this directory is cited as a source in each AI assistant. A listing here has a better chance of being recommended when someone asks an AI for tools like yours.

ChatGPT100–999

Perplexity1k+

Google AI Overviews1k+

Google AI Mode1k+

Gemini1k+

Copilot1–99

Where the visitors are

🇺🇸 United States39%

🇭🇺 HU14%

🇮🇳 India7%

More signals

Ranking keywords: 157,054
Traffic value: $1,223,607
Domain age: 21.6 yrs
Registered: Mar 20, 2005
Sitemap pages: –
Sitemap updated: –
Homepage outbound: 28
Newsletter: substack

Source: Ahrefs, Oct 8, 2026. How we measure this.

Our score

A · Top pick

Audience25/25

Authority15/15

AI visibility15/15

Link value8/15

Relevance9/15

Cost and access15/15

How the score works

What it costs to list

Listing here is free. There is no paid tier to worry about, though a badge or link back may be requested (see the note below).

Free listing

Yes

Paid plans from

–

Featured spot

–

Fast-track review

–

Plans and prices

Free Show HN post; ranked by upvotes; links followed only once on front page (/newest is non-SEO)

Show HN posts are free

Pricing checked 8 Oct 2026 · known platform model

How to submit

1Go to the Hacker News submit page at news.ycombinator.com/submit.
2Post your tool as a Show HN; posting is free.
3Expect the post to be ranked by community upvotes.
4Note that links are followed only once a post reaches the front page; /newest is non-SEO.

The details