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PG’s Hidden Message To Startups In Hacker News Algorithm
- ckluis 14y agoTried to give you 3 points in the first 5 minutes.
- canttestthis 14y agoAnd he's on the homepage...
- jgrahamc 14y agoYou need to take into account the flag mechanism if you want to use the algorithm as a metaphor.
- nolok 14y agoYes, let's see things where they aren't ! PG hidden message to startup: to exists, your number of users must keep growing at a crazy pace, there is no business in being a long standing company with a slowly growing paying user base. Or maybe, just maybe, this is a "I've seen my dog in the sky" post and you shouldn't consider your company like you consider your news feed.
- abcd_f 14y agoIf you liked this, you will love the Bible Code - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible_code http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible_code
- lifeisstillgood 14y ago>> build something a small number of people want a large amount ... ... and they control a lot of other people's money (My addendum for B2B sales)
- benologist 14y agoYour erection is showing...
- crntaylor 14y agoI would be interested to know if HN still uses the same ranking algorithm - I can think of a lot of interesting analyses that could be done!
- kevin_morrill 14y agoGrowth is definitely something PG advocates, but probably has little to do with HN algorithm. Spare yourself reading this speculative post and hear it from PG himself: http://paulgraham.com/growth.html http://paulgraham.com/growth.html