Well done, I have done similar, although less successful and not SaaS. But the parent did say: > Every one man success story on HN was largely possible due to

Well done, I have done similar, although less successful and not SaaS. But the parent did say: > Every one man success story on HN was largely possible due to existing audience from another entity that took years to grow And I think your experience (and mine) echoes that: the audience didn't happen to be "yours" but it did exist. The problem you have to solve in our case is how to turn a "colder" audience into a warmer one (as it would be if you "owned" the audience already).