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>Why did RouteGuru never submit to Hacker News? Did they submit to Reddit, or Digg? How was I supposed to have heard of them? Presumably, their target audience

by endtime 17y ago

>Why did RouteGuru never submit to Hacker News? Did they submit to Reddit, or Digg? How was I supposed to have heard of them? Presumably, their target audience is in India, so expecting them to post to sites mostly frequented by Europeans and Americans doesn't make too much sense.

nishantmodak 17y ago
> mostly frequented by Europeans and Americans doesn't make too much sense. http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/news.ycombinator.com?p=tgraph&r=home_home http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/news.ycombinator.com?p=tgraph&... Alexa - About 9 % Traffic from India. 2nd to United States.
- endtime 17y ago
  Collectively, users of those three sites are mostly European and American. And if only 9% of HN users are American, then yes, it does make sense that they didn't target this site.
  - endtime 17y ago
    Correction: "And if only 9% of HN users are Indian..."