I don't want to dampen your enthusiasm, but check whether your "likes" are real users or just fake users camouflaging as "real" users https://news.ycombinator.

I don't want to dampen your enthusiasm, but check whether your "likes" are real users or just fake users camouflaging as "real" users https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10232379 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10232379 We had a lot of "fake" likes for a university project, Facebook converted very badly for us (our goal was to do landing-page style validation, getting the user's email). In my experience, organic / viral growth, interacting with friends and users is much better (for sales-oriented companies). I don't know how I'd measure a news startup, do you have a comments section? That might be a good measure of actual engaged readership.