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It's true that they have a high volume of stories but those stories are: 1) Shown to a huge number of people. Their traffic, I'm sure, dwarfs HN's traffic. 2)
by coderdude 15y ago
It's true that they have a high volume of stories but those stories are:
1) Shown to a huge number of people. Their traffic, I'm sure, dwarfs HN's traffic.
2) They have an enormous amount of people subscribed via RSS who will be able to read the news at their leisure.
3) Their stories are also shared via Facebook, Google+, Twitter, you name it.
4) TC articles make their way to HN and Reddit as well, providing additional exposure.
The second page of TechCrunch will still provide you with more than enough eye balls.
- erikpukinskis 15y ago1) Shown to a huge number of people. Their traffic, I'm sure, dwarfs HN's traffic. This is definitely true. My startup was at the top of the front page on HN for a day or so (a year ago), and that sent us something like 1500 visits. The subsequent TechCrunch writeup garnered something around 5000.
- andrewcooke 15y agoi wonder how that's changed since then, though? i guess both have got bigger, but what were the relative rates? i got 9k unique visitors on a front page blog post from hn last week, fwiw.
- fedd 15y agoand i wonder which is the best day of week to post a show hn post? sorry for offtopic.
- andrewcooke 15y agoyeah, i wondered the same - that was a weekend, which i suspect is lower.
- daniel_levine 15y agoActually having worked at TC and gotten the HN numbers from pg, I can assure you this is not true. HN is very similarly sized to TC. I left TC before the Aol homepage which I'm sure is driving much more traffic, but HN has rocket-shipped and all without things like sharing features.