For me you are on the first google page for "API Test" nice.
Ask HN: Project is inexplicably receiving millions of hits. What would you do?
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Re: Ask HN: Project is inexplicably receiving millions of hits. What would you do?
#22Hold on, so I assume you are on a reasonably cheap hosting or cloud plan? Yet it scaled up to this?
Re: Ask HN: Project is inexplicably receiving millions of hits. What would you do?
#23Hold on, so I assume you are on a reasonably cheap hosting or cloud plan? Yet it scaled up to this?
Yup, $5/month DigitalOcean droplet + free CloudFlare tier.
Re: Ask HN: Project is inexplicably receiving millions of hits. What would you do?
#24Another option that might be worth considering is seeing if one of the solarwinds, redgate etc. type companies want to buy you out. Or sponsor you. It depends what they offer of course as to if it’s worth it.
Re: Ask HN: Project is inexplicably receiving millions of hits. What would you do?
#25Spend time understanding your current traffic and users.
- For the traffic: do the users just find it on Google Search, and then leave immediately? What are they looking for?
- For the requests: is it all from 1 or 2 users? Are there many users? Can you talk to them (email, chat box, ...). Do they use it for personal projects or for work? etc.
Once you have an idea of what's going on, you could start charging money, potentially.
Re: Ask HN: Project is inexplicably receiving millions of hits. What would you do?
#26Do you want to monetize it ?
- You can use it as an enabler aka Lever to get your next job, consulting gig, projects etc.
- You can run small ads that are contextual to your visitors and call it a win - win
- You can understand the type of use cases your visitors are coming in for and depending on the kind of jobs they are doing/using you for start a Pro (and Possibly Plus) Plan.
- Or you can do a mixture of all of the above.
What should you do? Decide if you are excited about doing this and also the time you want to spend doing all this. Depending on those you can choose to do whatever you want to do. Hope this helps and best of luck :D
Re: Ask HN: Project is inexplicably receiving millions of hits. What would you do?
#27In addition to other good advice here, I’d look carefully at those analytics numbers and maybe check logs also. 4.5m uniques sounds like a lot for a service like this.
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#28Re: Ask HN: Project is inexplicably receiving millions of hits. What would you do?
#29I think you should analyze the source of traffic first. Install Google webmaster tools to get the list of top keywords your site is ranking for. GWT tells you the exact number of impressions/clicks which first of all confirm if the traffic is legit and second of all tell you exactly what people are searching for coming to your site and the sites that are linking to you (also a good indicator of what your audience is visiting)
Once you have that data you have a very clearly defined target audience to go after via a product or custom advertising