There's a newsletter?
Seriously, that is my response. Never knew one existed before this post. Perhaps marketing should be a goal.
Ask HN: How can I make Hacker Newsletter better?
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#32How many new sign ups did this post get you? :)
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#33Mine the comments. I typically get more information there, and you'd save everyone from engaging in "OMG! Someone is WRONG on the Internet!"
Hell, you could have a full newsletter: "Best of patio11 Weekly" :-)
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#34An interview with popular HN users will be awesome. I often find myself looking up profiles of people who've left interesting comments/submissions to see the stuff they're working on.
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#35Did you build the readership organically entirely from HN? Were there other sources from which folks signed up? Also have you considered some kind of daily edition? Or might that be considered overkill?
Mainly from HN and other newsletters, but it was also mentioned on Smashing Magazine and a couple other popular blogs. I have thought about a daily edition, but after doing some surveys it didn't seem worth the effort as there wasn't much interest in it.
One major niggle on HN is that there will be 5-10 posts on the front page discussing the same topic. A very condensed end-of-day summary of the events that were interesting (as well as the related topics) would definitely be a nice addition.
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#36Info on upcoming regional HN meetups might be cool
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#37Is there a preview available somewhere? I am looking for a way to read HN on my Kindle.
Nevermind, found the archive at the very bottom of the page. I guess it won't work for Kindle, though.
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#38Since your asking for feedback, I was wondering if I may have my own feedback being I am a start up as well. You have tons of reviews on your site. Did you ask for all those reviews or did they just come organically? Thank you!
Several of them I got without asking and that prompted me to ask a couple more folks for them. I think the best advise is to just ask individuals for them.
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#39Kale - your newsletter really save me time. Personally, I would love to see a selection of stories that _aren't_ so popular. I commonly comb through the list of new articles that are a bit outside the box. They usually talk about human nature, knowledge crossing domains etc.
Keep up the good work!
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#40I actually prefer the Wayback Letter (most things I see in HNL I've already seen on HN proper), but it frequently goes through spurts of not happening. I realize that you're a busy man and that, for example, having a new child is more important than sending out the day's Wayback Letter. But it'd be nice to have some sort of status indicator--if you anticipate an "outage", let us know ahead of time, or if you don't it'd be great to have an email or website that just said, "There's stuff going on in my life, expect the next few days to be canceled."