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The best part about this 3-year old hack is that it's still working, on us this time :) The story starts in 2012 when it was a "Adwords hack" -> https://pando
by aresant 11y ago
The best part about this 3-year old hack is that it's still working, on us this time :)
The story starts in 2012 when it was a "Adwords hack" ->
https://pando.com/2012/05/02/vungles-co-founders-hustle-their-way-to-a-2-million-seed-round/ https://pando.com/2012/05/02/vungles-co-founders-hustle-thei...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/tomiogeron/2012/06/25/dont-try-this-at-home-how-vungle-broke-in-to-silicon-valley/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/tomiogeron/2012/06/25/dont-try-t...
And the wheelworks started again in April of this year ->
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-linkedin-hack-that-turned-a-penny-into-100000-2015-4 http://www.businessinsider.com/the-linkedin-hack-that-turned...
I am writing the above with respect - I do the exact same thing, re-use and re-cycle great content as often as you can, it's a might harder to create the story than to perpetuate it and market it.
The basics are covered brilliantly in PG's "The Submarine" if you haven't seen it http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
- jaksmit 11y agoyeah, it's been written about before, but I wanted to clarify the exact steps that I took, as the previous articles have been a bit hazy. Per the Pando article "Using a handful of techniques that he still seems to shy away from talking about" and as you highlight, an "adwords hack" is a very bad description. I haven't read that article from PG, I'll definitely check it out!
- quadrature 11y agoIm really surprised this still works with the ubiquitous use of ad block in the tech circle.
- austenallred 11y agoAd block isn't quite as ubiquitous as HN seems to think it is
- jaksmit 11y agoI also don't know if it would apply here. As these are "native" ads to LinkedIn. They don't really label them as ads much. I guess if the <div> mentions ads then it might be blocked.
- quadrature 11y agoI dont use linkedin much but I just tested it and it blocked 4 ads on the page.
- quadrature 11y agoWhich is why I qualified it with "within the tech circle", I'd be really surprised if the precentage of Ad block users on this forum was less than 80%.
- dangrossman 11y agoIf HN is like other tech sites, then it'll be more like 20% than 80%. http://www.quora.com/What-is-the-percentage-of-Internet-users-that-employ-AdBlock-Plus-or-similar-ad-blocking-plugins http://www.quora.com/What-is-the-percentage-of-Internet-user... My developer-oriented sites don't see abnormally high rates of ad blockers either.
- Zarathustra30 11y agoIf I like a site enough, I turn ad block off. If the ads aren't annoying, I leave ad block off.
- rwhitman 11y agoAdblock and any other plugin that manipulates the DOM interferes with web frontend work, also marketing work.