Use the suggestions in this article to spark brilliance. Stuck on your next big tech story idea? How to Get Featured on the Homepage of HackerNoon If you want to write a story that'll definitely get featured atop the homepage of hackernoon.com, you might try , and brainstorm story ideas from the following angles: taking a look at past top stories (e.g. ); Your Personal Experience Being a Student Founder Ain't Easy (e.g. ); or Your Perspective on Current Events The CEO of My Company, Genius, Must Be Black (e.g. ). Your Technical Expertise How NOT To Fracture A Layer 1 Chain! Hacker Noon's Editors love insights. BONUS TIP: long-form Aim to create a top story that's also evergreen content. Take the time to perform a real deep-dive into a niche subject. For example: ( ); Write about the processes involved in getting a tech job 50+ Data Structure and Algorithms Interview Questions for Programmers Share your meatiest ( ); or tech career development advice 6 Essential Tips on How to Become a Full Stack Developer Write up about the last useful thing you learned and/or Googled ( ). a quick tutorial Copying text to clipboard with JavaScript In Summary: , write over 800 words about a personal experience in the tech world; your (well-researched) views on what's happening in the world; or your technical knowledge. To write a Hacker Noon top story write over 1,000 words about , or ( ) and write up with broad appeal. To write a Hacker Noon top story that has staying power, tech career development do your SEO keyword research a quick dev tutorial post *This list of ways to get featured atop the homepage of hackernoon.com is by no means exhaustive. As with all things, there are also ( ); outliers Laziness Chapter I: Meta-Programming ( ); failures How and Why My First Five Startups Failed and ( ); and checklists listicles 🚀 Ultimate Startup Launch Checklist: 2020 Edition 🚀 to be had ). interesting conversations ( Interview with Chatroulette Founder Andrey Ternovskiy ✨ Use your imagination! ✨ Hey Hacker, Where Are You Right Now? Not to humblebrag too hard or anything, but we got hackers in diff'rent area codes. Not to mention our highly distributed team — check out our new about page to meet everybody . 👋 From ( ) to ( ) and ( ) — localized content wins because people are always somewhere. Africa 6 Lessons Learned Fundraising for Our Startup in Africa India Identifying The Poor in India: A Data Driven Analysis Ukraine Product is the King: How Ukrainian Engineers Are Creating Home Security Products Hacker Noon people, in particular, are every where: Research and write about what's happening in tech right now, from the perspective of where you are located. Take a Look at Hacker Noon's Top Tag Pages Let yourself get lost in (and inspired by) the words of writers who have written good words before you. that intrigues you and from your personal perspective. Find a future-facing story write a response post Hey, while you're at it, why not about the kinds of headlines published in your niche on , and then write a post about that? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ collect and analyse some data Hacker Noon Make sure you're in-the-know about which tags we're featuring below-the-fold on the homepage of that month. Aim to write something worthy of being featured in one or more of those tag categories. BONUS TIP 02: hackernoon.com If It Bleeds, It Leads As in please. bleeding-edge technology, It pays to read tech news. Listen to podcasts. Know what's up. Whether you want to ( ); share your personal story in relation to a newsworthy topic How I Lost Trust in Facebook ( ; ); offer practical advice related to a rising global trend Remote Work's Hierarchy of Needs Is Your Zoom Meeting Really End-to-End Encrypted? ( ); or offer your unique/technical/legal perspective on the headlines everybody's talking about President Trump’s Social Media Executive Order Would Restrict Legal Protections for Internet Speech for something Elon Musk may or may not need in the near future ( ), build a concept app I Built a Neuralink App Concept After Elon Musk’s Latest Joe Rogan Podcast we'd be happy to publish it. Finally: Republish Your Blog, Brand or Startup's Content on Hacker Noon Little known fact: you can republish content on Hacker Noon, yes, even if already it was published elsewhere first. Click through for , if that's the route you want to follow. four fun facts you need to know about republishing on Hacker Noon We're reshuffling things over at community.hackernoon.com: get involved now for further writing prompts, writer resources, tech news round-ups, and more! BONUS TIP 03: “And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.” — Sylvia Plath — You can . write about the results of a Twitter poll you did on whether people buy tech or progress You can and fill the post with Rick Rolls, if you want. write a Pseudo-Mathematical Proof of All Things Being Skills You Can Get Better At You can rant about why , even. Larry Wall's "Three Virtues of a Programmer" are Utter Bullshit The key is simply to . start writing

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