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It's been one month since I launched my climbing news website, so I thought I'd give those that wished me well an update (and possibly gain some new users too ;
by csytan 16y ago
It's been one month since I launched my climbing news website, so I thought I'd give those that wished me well an update (and possibly gain some new users too ;).
First thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1915280 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1915280
Second thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1924941 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1924941
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What's happened since then:
- Two redesigns
- Over 80 topic posts (57 of which were from me)
- Approx 50 unique visitors/day
- Defeated: 2 spammers
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Traffic: http://i.imgur.com/7Oo29.png http://i.imgur.com/7Oo29.png
Visitors: http://i.imgur.com/jM5UM.png http://i.imgur.com/jM5UM.png
The first and second traffic peaks are from the HN posts. The third peak was when I cross-posted an article to various climbing forums. I got criticized heavily for it, but it was a good learning experience.
I think it's important to get periodic bursts of traffic from other sites, but at the end of the day, regular contributors are the most important, especially when setting the tone of the community.
- krisneuharth 16y agoAs one of your unique daily visitors I say thanks for making this. I have passed it on to all my climbing friends and posted it on Facebook. I like the clean interface and high quality content thus far. Are you planning to throw ads on this at some point? PS- This link is broken: http://www.thrutched.com/password_reset http://www.thrutched.com/password_reset
- csytan 16y agoThanks for visiting! No plans to put ads on it now. I'm doing this cause I love working on it. Not to say that I wouldn't put a small ad up if it ever grew large, but in the list of priorities, making money is at the far bottom. I have a long term goal of building a high quality community like HN (but with line breaks).
- krisneuharth 16y agoThat's cool. If you had any interest in a banner exchange let me know. One of my several side projects is a climbing related site. Perhaps we can help each other out? If you have any interest hit me up at the e-mail in my profile.
- csytan 16y agoCool! I've gotten some great advice talking to Matt from http://bouldr.net/ http://bouldr.net/ so that sounds swell.
- csytan 16y agoPassword reset should be working now. Thanks for the bug report.