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Kudos on your success and a well written article, but to be very frank, this is incredibly hard to emulate. An analogy would be the Envato network discussing th

Kudos on your success and a well written article, but to be very frank, this is incredibly hard to emulate. An analogy would be the Envato network discussing the success of a new sister site and attributing the initial traction to their already well established network. Not that there's anything wrong with that - just that there's not too much for me to learn. If there's one takeaway, it's that leverage can be a wonderful thing and can make a tremendous difference to the outcome of a startup. There's a superb post on Quora that articulates this really well: http://www.quora.com/Xianhang-Zhang/Disregard-ideas-acquire-assets http://www.quora.com/Xianhang-Zhang/Disregard-ideas-acquire-... That said, (and please correct me if I'm wrong) I think this represents minimal value in terms of actionable insight for the reader, so I'm intrigued as to how this hit the top of HN. My theory is a lot of users chose to upvote this post without actually bothering to click through and read the article.

tom_ilsinszki 16y ago
I agree. Not too much new here. I've upvoted it however because I've learnt that: * You can give away in-app purchases for free. (Wasn't sure if it could be done.) * They didn't spend any money on advertising. Nothing new there either, but it's another datapoint and it'll help me a bit in the future, when I need to figure out if we should spend money on ads (probably not).
asknemo 16y ago
I would speculate that there are some comment bots that simply upvote and comment whatever at the top by chance. Out of 6 comments here 3 seems completely off-topic and coming from relatively new users. There were reports of submission bots around lately too.
BrandonM 16y ago
After learning the importance of the leverage you mention, the reader can now seek to obtain that leverage. For example, this offers another means for monetizing a free app. If you can write a free app that gets a lot of traction, you can then use it to help launch other apps.

tom_ilsinszki 16y ago

I agree. Not too much new here. I've upvoted it however because I've learnt that: * You can give away in-app purchases for free. (Wasn't sure if it could be done.) * They didn't spend any money on advertising. Nothing new there either, but it's another datapoint and it'll help me a bit in the future, when I need to figure out if we should spend money on ads (probably not).

asknemo 16y ago

I would speculate that there are some comment bots that simply upvote and comment whatever at the top by chance. Out of 6 comments here 3 seems completely off-topic and coming from relatively new users. There were reports of submission bots around lately too.

BrandonM 16y ago

After learning the importance of the leverage you mention, the reader can now seek to obtain that leverage. For example, this offers another means for monetizing a free app. If you can write a free app that gets a lot of traction, you can then use it to help launch other apps.