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Getting Hacker News’d Twice – Lessons Learned for Entrepreneurs
- telotortium 7y ago> This post is actually a meta experiment. > > My hope is that this is actually the 3rd time we’re going to make it on HN. :) It certainly seems like you'll succeed :) Does the Web app/Chrome extension support Anki? That's what I hoped I'd be able to use it for.
- burtonator 7y agoThe Electron version does but I actually didn't realize that I could actually make sync work if I used a web extension / chrome extension and just requested access to http://localhost:anki_port http://localhost:anki_port ... so I might try that and update the web extension that way. This would mean you don't need to use the full desktop app. It's been interesting getting the zen of the desktop + chrome + mobile thing all working and humming along. We're getting close to having MacOS + Windows + Linux + Web + Mobile...
- nkozyra 7y agoIs this high HN traffic? Sites can't routinely be going down with 2k users and 20k page views right?
- burtonator 7y agoNot modern ones on decent architecture. Going down isn't the problem so much as making sure the content + app you're trying to showcase is working. If you do a Show HN post and your app doesn't scale or has a glitch it would suck to have everyone have a poor experience.
- minimaxir 7y agoYears ago, when one of my posts made it to #1 on Hacker News, the traffic was so much for my cheap WordPress blog hosted on DreamHost that they "moved" the blog to a more high-demand system and somehow corrupted the database in the process. In less than 24 hours I learned how static blog sites work and somehow I was able to migrate everything using Google caches.
- wyqydsyq 7y agoMaybe half a decade ago it wasn't uncommon, these days it's pretty rare to see something crash out from HN post DDoS unless it's some kind of webapp that isn't properly scalable
- dshacker 7y agoI actually made it once or twice to HNs front page, and what I've seen is that HN is one of the heaviest users of adblockers in the general population. I did a request counter vs an analytics counter, and I'd say you easily get 2x or 3x the traffic google analytics shows.
- burtonator 7y agoOh.. that's interesting. I noticed that FF is blocking GA by default now - or at least my configuration. I think I'm going to inject a tracking pixel to see if you're hypothesis is correct. Just to measure the number of requests. It would actually be really interesting to see. Polar has about 15% FF usage right now that hit the site directly.
- vxNsr 7y agoWhich honestly makes a ton of sense. while the HN crowd might be the biggest beneficiary of ad tech, they also are the most knowledgeable about blocking it and of course know how intrusive and annoying it is.
- Gys 7y agoPolar – an offline web browser with annotations and tagging (in case anybody else is wondering)
- zelpo 7y agoThink this is great information for people like me. I am a serial entrepreneur.
- lancewiggs 7y agoYou stopped me at " Just login and enter their credentials and they’re in" Providing credentials is at a cost. As you aptly point out in the rest of the post you will use those credentials in the future, and that's to the cost of us, the potential clients.
- burtonator 7y ago> you will use those credentials in the future, and that's to the cost of us, the potential clients. How is that? I don't follow.
- lancewiggs 7y agoIt's a cost to receive and manage any future email, and there is a risk that could get out of hand if a site passes on the email address to others.
- bdibs 7y agoJust a heads up on iOS with Safari your two GA images are wider than the rest of the page.
- burtonator 7y agoThanks! Fixed it!
- lostmsu 7y agoIt's interesting. From my Show HNs only one got a real spike. The most recent two went by as if nobody ever saw them. That includes the one I consider the most important (basically, TensorFlow for C#). I feel if it does not start with "Google announces", nobody cares to look. Maybe I need more clickbait in the titles :/
- arcturus17 7y agoThis guy is spamming his product on here day in and day out.
- smallbigfish 7y agoWe are "insanely smart" guys.
- SubiculumCode 7y agoAnd gals. But seriously, that is why I come to HN...so I can talk to people smarter than me, or at least, expert in an area I am not.
- GenericsMotors 7y agoCareful, HN is also full of blowhards. "Blockchain" and "NoSQL" are dead giveaways.
- gandutraveler 7y ago> We are "insanely smart" guys. We listen to NPR because we are better than you - Luis CK We read hacker news for same reason :)
- whatabackend 7y agoNICE BUT ALL MY PDFS HAVE A HEAVY TEAL TINT ON THEM AND I CANT TURN IT OFF AHHHHHHHH IT SEEMS TO BE A FEATURE I CANT TURN OFF BECAUSE IT CORRELATES WITH THE READ-PROGRESS BAR
- burtonator 7y agoIn Polar and they have a teal tint? Can you create a bug and I'll take a look.. maybe attach a screenshot? I haven't seen this one before. https://github.com/burtonator/polar-bookshelf/issues https://github.com/burtonator/polar-bookshelf/issues
- delish 7y agoYeah--I thought/think it's a feature, so you know how far you've read, but when I saw it I thought, "_Wow_ that's a strong design statement that I doubt I'll ever get used to."
- burtonator 7y agooh. Sorry. Yes. The pagemarks are overlays showing which portions of documents you've read.
- haydn3 7y agoGod I feel like a senior citizen trying to read this site, why is the text so goddamn big?
- forrestthewoods 7y agoHackerNews front page is good for thousands of views. As much as 10,000 if you can get near the top. r/programming is good for a couple of tens of thousands of views. Reddit is hard and random. Getting the first ~20 votes is soooo random. Subreddits like r/rust are smaller, but passionate, and good for a few thousand views. r/dataisbeautiful is good for hundreds of thousands of views. It's a very slow subreddit so if you can hit #1 you'll be on it's frontpage for 24 hours plus. I cracked half a million views from there once. I've never gotten shit for traffic from Twitter or Facebook.
- burtonator 7y agoHey. This is interesting. The title of the post I submitted changed. Who changed it? Does HN automatically change the titles of posts?
- WalterGR 7y agoI believe it’s done by the mods. You are to submit URLs with their original titles. What title did you use in your submission?