The post that launched my company in 2009[1] was not launched or encouraged in any significant way by me, but it showed up on hacker news, reddit, and a few oth

The post that launched my company in 2009[1] was not launched or encouraged in any significant way by me, but it showed up on hacker news, reddit, and a few other places nearly all at once. I mean, the guy had asked a few questions, and maybe he told me he was doing a review; I don't rightly remember, but that wasn't particularly unusual; sysadmins benchmark things all the time and it usually doesn't end up causing anything noteworthy. What was unusual was that my revenue went from... very little to enough to quit my dayjob in a very short period of time. Afterwards, I gave the guy a lot of free credit, just 'cause he was so impactful to my business, but he did another review not that long after, finding that Linode's superior I/O (and, I think, more VCPUs) made more difference for his application than the additional ram that I gave them at the tested price point. My point is that when something gains natural traction on one user-curated news sites, it's only natural that it will gain traction on other user-curated news sites with overlapping userbases. [1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=590993 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=590993