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This is a great story for HN. It has current technology, a how-to slant, and it's a terrific example of how to put together a learning-driven web business. Grea
by DanielBMarkham 14y ago
This is a great story for HN. It has current technology, a how-to slant, and it's a terrific example of how to put together a learning-driven web business. Great job, James!
ADD: I hope I'm not being too nosy, but I'd love to see some traffic and conversion numbers from you. I love the structure of this site.
- jdlshore 14y agoThanks! I'll share what I can. I don't track site traffic (but I can tell you that I've bumped Heroku up to 4 dynos to keep response time solid) but I do track media traffic, since I pay for that separately. I've already served over twice the video bytes today as I did all day yesterday. Those are probably mostly the demo video. [1] The main thing I track is subscriptions, and free trial conversions. Subscriptions are up an impressive amount--proportionally about the same as the media traffic, actually. It will be interesting to see if the conversion numbers change. Credit for the site design goes to Primate in Scotland [2]. They did a beautiful job with the design as well as CSS coding, and I couldn't be happier with the result. Any remaining issues you see are my fault. :-) [1] http://www.letscodejavascript.com/#demo http://www.letscodejavascript.com/#demo [2] http://primate.co.uk/ http://primate.co.uk/
- jdlshore 14y agoUpdate: I've posted an analysis of the effect of the HN traffic surge here: http://www.jamesshore.com/Blog/Analysis-of-HN-Traffic-Surge.html http://www.jamesshore.com/Blog/Analysis-of-HN-Traffic-Surge....