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I legit don’t understand what these blog posts hope to accomplish.

• antipaul 6y ago
  Indeed, this was a creative, even literary, entry but it makes a memorable case for overcoming writers block, I mean, entrepreneur’s block.
• gowld 6y ago
  They get the author's company/brand on the front-page of HN, for a little name recognition. It's an ad.
• ackbar03 6y ago
  The real reason is the drive traffic to their site. You must be new to this. Apparently this is "the" way to drive traffic / growth now, i.e. by writing these sort of short blog posts now. It's the "growth hacking" way. I have a product in the Chinese market so I haven't really used these kinds of marketing techniques. Maybe someone else can chip in how well these methods work in driving traffic and subsequently conversions, I'm genuinely curious as well
• kgin 6y ago
  Don’t let that slow you down. Just launch the damn blog post and let your readers tell you what you should hope to accomplish.