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> Why would you build and maintain a feature for 0.005% of your users? Even taking at face value the assumptions that yield your numbers (not obvious to me tha

> Why would you build and maintain a feature for 0.005% of your users? Even taking at face value the assumptions that yield your numbers (not obvious to me that's safe): 150K is still a pretty large audience. It's an influential audience, to the extent that tech and therefore thinking about tech is influential. It's an audience that understands the implications of technology choices like this and can articulate them. Also, I don't understand the assumption that this audience is completely complementary when it comes to understanding how the rest of the population thinks. I expect it's at least as likely a bet that there are people in the rest of the population who sense something is off or some aspect of the experience is degraded but can't understand and articulate the issue at as high a resolution as it is likely that everyone in the rest of the population simple does not care. And you really don't have to be some kind of programmer or other ubernerd to see some of the relevant issues in play with regards to URLs and walled gardens.

zimpenfish 9y ago
> It's an influential audience I know HN loves to think they're influential but I'd suggest than less than two handfuls of HN users actually have measurable influence outside of HN.
ucaetano 9y ago
> 150K is still a pretty large audience. No, it's tiny. And considering how HN readers usually user adblock, and rarely click on ads, it is a completely irrelevant audience for Google. But let's say you make $10 out of each user per year. That's $1.5M in yearly revenue. It barely pays for 3 employees at a large tech firm. > It's an influential audience, to the extent that tech and therefore thinking about tech is influential. >It's an audience that understands the implications of technology choices like this and can articulate them. Considering how even HN readers are divided about AMP, I'd say that the net impact of HN audience on AMP is zero. We're not as influential outside the tech bubble as you think.
- madeofpalk 9y ago
  Barely influential within it either.

zimpenfish 9y ago

> It's an influential audience I know HN loves to think they're influential but I'd suggest than less than two handfuls of HN users actually have measurable influence outside of HN.

ucaetano 9y ago

> 150K is still a pretty large audience. No, it's tiny. And considering how HN readers usually user adblock, and rarely click on ads, it is a completely irrelevant audience for Google. But let's say you make $10 out of each user per year. That's $1.5M in yearly revenue. It barely pays for 3 employees at a large tech firm. > It's an influential audience, to the extent that tech and therefore thinking about tech is influential. >It's an audience that understands the implications of technology choices like this and can articulate them. Considering how even HN readers are divided about AMP, I'd say that the net impact of HN audience on AMP is zero. We're not as influential outside the tech bubble as you think.

madeofpalk 9y ago
Barely influential within it either.