The link to my data visualization was on front page for ~8 hours. I got 10K hits first day, 2500 second day, 400 third day. The post was not specifically pimpin

The link to my data visualization was on front page for ~8 hours. I got 10K hits first day, 2500 second day, 400 third day. The post was not specifically pimping my side project, but was a visualization of Seed Funding. That being said we had about 500 people from HN request beta access. link: https://www.machete.io/board/view/seed_db_funding_rounds/157a518b-cbf2-4bde-84b4-98cfa0bc15ba https://www.machete.io/board/view/seed_db_funding_rounds/157... If you want to track visits from HN, MAKE SURE YOU ENABLE HTTPS BY DEFAULT AND LINK TO AN HTTPS LINK. It is in the http spec that no referrer info is passes from an https site (like HN) to an http site. One last bit - we are hosted on a small Azure instance, we used loader.io to test what kind of a load we could handle and it shit out pretty quickly. We implemented some output caching and it handled the HN flood just fine (200-300 concurrent users).