How I'm Getting Organic Traffic Building a Polymarket Bot in Public (No Growth Hacks)

I've been posting about building a Polymarket trading bot as I go, mostly because I was stuck and wanted to think out loud. A few things I noticed that I didn't expect:
The broken version gets more engagement than the working one. A post about my bot losing money to slippage on a thin market outperformed a clean-architecture writeup by a wide margin. People comment on mistakes they recognize, not on things that already work.
Rewriting per platform beats copy-pasting, even when it's more work. Same core article, different framing: HN gets the technical argument with zero self-promo, dev.to gets the code, Twitter gets one sharp claim instead of a summary. Identical copies performed worse everywhere I tried it.
Code-to-engagement ratio is real here specifically. Posts with actual runnable snippets got bookmarked and shared. Posts that were mostly explanation got read once and forgotten.
I don't have this fully figured out - some of it might just be posting often enough that it compounds, not some traffic secret. Sharing what's worked so far, not a playbook.