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Author here. Ever since I knew of Hacker News, I've always been interested in the massive leverage it provide to both startups and individuals. Choose the corr
by harrydry 7y ago
Author here. Ever since I knew of Hacker News, I've always been interested in the massive leverage it provide to both startups and individuals.
Choose the correct title and your startup can be projected to thousands. Write a thoughtful comment and you can make 20 sales. Ask the right question and you can end up with a Silicon Valley job (that actually happened)!
I came across Simple Analytics [1] a privacy-focused startup which pulls in huge traffic from HN. Fortunately all their traffic was all "/open" so I could compare traffic spikes with their founders [2] Hacker News activity and understand what really does works on Hacker News.
[1] - https://simpleanalytics.com https://simpleanalytics.com
[2] - https://twitter.com/AdriaanvRossum https://twitter.com/AdriaanvRossum
- vectorEQ 7y agoThanks man, that's really nice insights :)
- r3bl 7y agoYeah, it's just the title. I was on top for like 16h or so because I had a catchy title and some way of supporting that title within the content. Comments were far different. Almost all of them were negative and highly unconstructive. I don't mind criticism, but I really mind criticism from which I can't learn anything. One HN reader actually took the time to write a constructive comment. I don't know who it was nor did I thank him at the time, but that one constructive criticism was way more helpful than all the traffic boost I got.