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My latest submit to YC News brought 1500 people to my blog. This 2000 uniques a month is so far off. Is it in (000)s?
by mikesabat 19y ago
My latest submit to YC News brought 1500 people to my blog. This 2000 uniques a month is so far off.
Is it in (000)s?
- pchristensen 19y agoI got about the same from YC News recently. I'd guess there are about between 5,000-7,000 uniques. Why? 1) My story (mike's too) got on the front page and had some decent discussion. I think 15-20% of uniques reading a featured story is a reasonable estimate. 2) The site is about news and community, so it doesn't make much sense to check infrequently. I'd guess that the uniques/week isn't much below the uniques/month. So it wouldn't matter that the story didn't stay up for a long time. 3) The leaderboard goes up to the top 50, with karma dropping by about 100 per 5 spots towards the end. If you take the rule of thumb that 90% just read, 9% contribute a little, and 1% contribute a lot, then if the top 1% is 50 people, you get 5,000. If it's 70 people, then you get 7,000. I recognize most of the names on the top 50, and I bet I'd recognize half of the top 51-100. So again, 5,000-7,000. pg, care to give some guidance?
- curi 19y agothe contribution percentages may be different here b/c we have a lot of the kind of people who take initiative, aren't afraid to put their ideas forward, know how to create user accounts, and have stuff to say.