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Hacking Hacker News for Fun and Profit – Part 1
- barbazoo 5y agoSo this is a link to a blog post on the frontpage of HN detailing the analysis of how to get a post onto the front page of HN because "a great post can save months of organic growth and give you that much needed bump of early adopters" while at the same time saying nothing about the actual product or service they're working on, other than "we are in stealth mode but sharing some cool stuff about DevOps and Security". Seems like a missed opportunity, unless their business is figuring out when to post to HN for it to be most likely to become "viral".
- mrgalaxy 5y agoI feel like if they can do it once, they can do it again. Maybe they are just trying to prove something.
- barbazoo 5y agoMaybe, or maybe posts about how succeed on HN are just particularly popular.
- mrgalaxy 5y agoI mean I clicked on it for that reason, so you're not wrong.
- Zababa 5y agoI clicked on it thinking is was "hacking" in the black hat/white hat sense.
- PostThisTooFast 5y agoThat is actual hacking. This is another BS use of the word, where there's no actual hacking done.
- eranation 5y agoGood point, and thanks for the feedback! We had this debate internally. We feel we need some more time to polish the product before launching, and had an internal discussion on whether we postpone any marketing activity till after we launch, or start engaging with the community sooner. In this case, we just wanted to share our learning.
- bigdict 5y agoInstead of sending thousands of requests through that API you can download the full official dump on Google BigQuery Datasets.
- niros_valtos 5y agoAuthor of the post here (Nir, CEO of Arnica). Thanks for the feedback! That's a great tip, I wish I knew before. I'm not a developer (our developers are busy building the actual product) so I learn new things every day. I'll give the BigQuery dataset a try. EDIT: I took a look and it seems like that the last modification was on 2016.
- neogodless 5y ago> I'm not a developer ... so I learn new things every day Hopefully, that's true for developers, too!
- bigdict 5y agoNo there's a different one, you need "full" under hacker_news. It's updated at least daily.
- bigdict 5y agoRefer to this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29017712 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29017712.
- mountaineer 5y agoI don't believe that BigQuery dataset is actively updated?
- podiki 5y agoInteresting data and analysis to see (who hasn't wondered if there's a "best" time to post?) though I fail to see what that would have to do with any actual product. Sure, HN can give you a ton of views, but it is a pretty particular audience.
- Loughla 5y ago>but it is a pretty particular audience. With massive amounts of discretionary income available to spend, influence and connections in (at least) the tech sphere, and access to networks full of literal billionaires. The right post/series of posts could grant you access to all of those things. Hell, I bought a remarkable because of an HN post. That's just one thing, but it's real.
- qmarchi 5y agoWhat post convinced you to get the ReMarkable?
- Loughla 5y agoReading some of the other use-cases on here. It seemed like it would fit my need. It 100% does, except that you can't tag pages, so searching through is a real pain in the ass.
- Fnoord 5y ago> Hell, I bought a remarkable because of an HN post. That's just one thing, but it's real. Not this one I suppose [1]. Spoiler: "Our new Connect subscription service" [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29000674 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29000674
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- def_true_false 5y agoTFA doesn't contain much advice for article authors. It reads more like a guide to farming karma. In which case, here is a better trick: When a decent article is posted, go and post another article from the same author/website, another article about the same topic or a competitor (release announcements trigger this pattern reliably). You can probably automate this.
- macintux 5y agoExtremely minor nitpick, but you use “EST” where I assume you just mean “Eastern”. (I know I’m fighting a losing battle on this one, but for a technical audience accuracy would seem to be important.)
- niros_valtos 5y agoNot a nitpick at all. Fixed.
- ofou 5y agoI missed views / karma points to see if there's any correlation.