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Exposure doesn't necessarily mean conversion. If your product isn't good enough, getting it into the front page will only serve to get you panned faster.
by rubinelli 13y ago
Exposure doesn't necessarily mean conversion. If your product isn't good enough, getting it into the front page will only serve to get you panned faster.
- IgorPartola 13y agoSo much of whether you make it to the front page has to do with timing and luck. The overlap between "good product" and "makes it to the front page" is probably a sliver on the Venn diagram. Having more control over it is better. Also, launches are not the only thing that can benefit from exposure. Things like "We are hiring" (for non-YC companies), "please hire me", or just great blog posts that result in people visiting your blog repeatedly do convert. So do sites like TechCrunch which are geared towards having lots of views. FOSS projects benefit from exposure and potentially get charitable contributions. So do actual charities. The opposite is also true: flag a competitor's post into oblivion before it reaches the front page to avoid giving their possibly superior product an edge. There is lots to be gained here.