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It's nice to see this essay being publicly exposed by a more mainstream news site.

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• edw519 17y ago
  Yes. Hopefully it will bring more makers to hn and scare the managers away.
  • pg 17y ago
    I stopped linking to HN from essays several months ago. I don't want the community to grow too fast.
    • robg 17y ago
      What's the traffic difference between your highest visited essays and HN? I found YC and HN through your essays. I'm wondering if that's a more general phenomenon.
      • pg 17y ago
        On an ordinary weekday, HN gets about 3x as many unique visitors as my site: 33k vs 11k. When a new essay is very popular, my traffic spikes up to 30 or 40k a day, or in rare cases over 50k.
        • robg 17y ago
          Thanks! As a comparison, how's this essay looking today? I only saw the link because it was on the front page, but I think that's one of their most popular blogs. Is the NY Times as powerful as claimed in PR circles?
          • pg 17y ago
            I don't know; Yahoo Store only updates stats once a day. If I used Mixpanel (http://mixpanel.com http://mixpanel.com) I could see stats in real time!
            • trefn 17y ago
              feel free to sign up =)
    • alanthonyc 17y ago
      Agreed. As much as I like the fact that ideas coming from this site are spreading, I would also like people to work at least as much as I did to find HN. A direct link from the NYT would be way too easy.
    • weaksauce 17y ago
      Has the growth rate been fairly steady or has it increased as of late?
      • pg 17y ago
        http://ycombinator.com/images/hntraffic.28jul09.png http://ycombinator.com/images/hntraffic.28jul09.png Traffic spiked during applications and dipped at the beginning of summer, as it always does, but you can see there's secular growth mixed with the seasonal variation.
  • jwesley 17y ago
    I knows it's fun and all to hate on managers, but they do perform a valuable function within an organization. If you're successful enough as an entrepreneur, it's almost guaranteed that you'll end up as one. Just because most people here identify more with the maker does not mean manager types should be disparaged.
    • edw519 17y ago
      Agreed. Any disparagement of managers was unintended. I come here to mingle with fellow makers when I need a break from manager types. That's all.
    • gaius 17y ago
      In IT it seems that nearly all middle managers ended up in that job specifically to keep them from touching the systems or the codebase...
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