The majority of users are not going to look at it from your perspective. The HN crowd is likely to be your highest intent audience, and your comment suggests they don't feel your product expresses enough of a value prop ahead of the registration wall. If you want this to grow organically, you're going to need to take a user-centered design perspective. It's not sufficient to say you yourself represent a user persona because you're biased by your desire to see a return on investment.

You might have synesthesia. Here's a post about how I experience the world: https://www.duncanmcisaac.com/you-know-the-half-of-it/

I have Number-Form and Time-Space synesthesia - helps with remembering numbers and dates:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_form

https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/the-rare-humans-who-...