You should put your site in your profile so you can see how many people come after you post an offhand reference to the fact that you may have once written something interesting elsewhere.
Well I thought it was interesting that my shitty comment that linked to something I wrote got so many hits while getting on the frontpage got so little in comparison.
I could get your angst if I had linked to it again or actually linked to it in my profile. But I did neither. So now I just think you are a dick.
I had a Show HN that made no headway on the frontpage (like 3 karma then it disappeared into the depths), but I posted that same link, relevantly, as a comment somewhere in the middle of the thread and it absolutely blew up. It's now my highest starred repo on Github and I started the phone interview process with Hulu because of it. Don't underestimate the comments here. A TON of people browse these posts too.
