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Clickable: http://hnlive.trending.us http://hnlive.trending.us A few questions: * What was your original submission? * What time of day did you make it? * H

Clickable: http://hnlive.trending.us http://hnlive.trending.us A few questions: * What was your original submission? * What time of day did you make it? * How long did it stay on the "newest" page? * How many people clicked on it? * What was the title? These are important questions - knowing the answers shows you thought about your promotion. Not knowing the answers shows you didn't. And it's now important to think about promoting your links on HN, because of the sheer volume of material now here. If you want something noticed you need to get your title right, pick your time, write something that's immediately eye-catching, and generally market it. Otherwise it's pure chance, even if it's good.

geuis 16y ago
Original submission: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2384668 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2384668 Title "Hacker News Live". About 11 hours ago. Stayed on the newest page for roughly an hour. Google Analytics indicate 52 page views, about 75% bounce rate. Much of that might have been me personally as I was getting everything working.
- RiderOfGiraffes 16y ago
  Simple observation - you needed either to point to a page that explained the problem your potential users have that you are solving, or you needed to do that in a comment to your own submission. People could easily have clicked on it and just thought - "Huh - can't see what this does that's different" - and closed. It doesn't do anything special for me because I do my HN borwsing on a very elderly machine that can't understand anything new or fancy. I may actually be mis-interpreting the site because it degrades gracefully and I don't see anything special - maybe it looks completely different on a modern browser. But you need to get people to recognise their pain - then take it away. Your submission here didn't do that.
  - geuis 16y ago
    Thanks ROG. Good advice. I took a little extra effort to make sure hnlive matches the native style as closely as possible, just without tables. Basically every 10 seconds or so, if there are changes in votes/comments/position the page updates. Its built on node.js and uses socket.io to maintain the open connection to the backend.
    - RiderOfGiraffes 16y ago
      For HN, a story of what you've done, what technology you used, what problems you had, and how you solved them, is at least as interesting as the product itself. Then people might look at it for a bit to evaluate what you've done, and maybe get hooked. From what you say, I would consider using it, if only my browser supported it. Hope that helps.

geuis 16y ago

Original submission: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2384668 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2384668 Title "Hacker News Live". About 11 hours ago. Stayed on the newest page for roughly an hour. Google Analytics indicate 52 page views, about 75% bounce rate. Much of that might have been me personally as I was getting everything working.

RiderOfGiraffes 16y ago
Simple observation - you needed either to point to a page that explained the problem your potential users have that you are solving, or you needed to do that in a comment to your own submission. People could easily have clicked on it and just thought - "Huh - can't see what this does that's different" - and closed. It doesn't do anything special for me because I do my HN borwsing on a very elderly machine that can't understand anything new or fancy. I may actually be mis-interpreting the site because it degrades gracefully and I don't see anything special - maybe it looks completely different on a modern browser. But you need to get people to recognise their pain - then take it away. Your submission here didn't do that.
- geuis 16y ago
  Thanks ROG. Good advice. I took a little extra effort to make sure hnlive matches the native style as closely as possible, just without tables. Basically every 10 seconds or so, if there are changes in votes/comments/position the page updates. Its built on node.js and uses socket.io to maintain the open connection to the backend.
  - RiderOfGiraffes 16y ago
    For HN, a story of what you've done, what technology you used, what problems you had, and how you solved them, is at least as interesting as the product itself. Then people might look at it for a bit to evaluate what you've done, and maybe get hooked. From what you say, I would consider using it, if only my browser supported it. Hope that helps.