Thanks for posting this, it is very timely for me. I have been a forum lurker for most of my life. I visit Hacker News almost everyday but seldom do I post a comment and I have never submitted an article. Same with Facebook, I'm mostly a lurker. It is my New Year's resolution to start writing and contributing more to the online communities I visit. In fact I just finished my first draft of a blog about my experience using Angular, LokiJS, and Ionic to make offline apps. Hopefully in the next day or two I will publish it on my blog and maybe even submit it to Hacker News.
Your blog posts encourages me to keep at it. Thanks.
If you do submit to HN, don't get too tied up in whether it gets any attention or not. Plenty of quality submissions slip by without rising to the front page.
That said, it's really fun and enlightening to see a high-quality conversation develop around something you've written. Keep writing, submit your work on occasion, and enjoy the process.
