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I gave up trying to land the front page on HN. It just doesn't have the same quality of traffic or discussions from 5~6 years ago when HN was at it's peak. Wha

by pwaai 8y ago

I gave up trying to land the front page on HN. It just doesn't have the same quality of traffic or discussions from 5~6 years ago when HN was at it's peak. What's more there are a lot of false positives in the comment sections from a demographic that isn't 100% representative of your target market.

gxs 8y ago
That's quite a claim without numbers. It looks like part of the point of this post is to illuminate/explore that hypothesis. Or, is that how you're interpreting his findings?
- pwaai 8y ago
  100 installs from 10,000 visitors for starters.
  - jenoer 8y ago
    I think most visitors, like myself, visit a lot of these posted links to read up on the project/end-result, out of curiosity and for expanding my knowledge on various subjects.