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I don't think /r/programming was the correct choice for this campaign. I would think that the web development subs and even the sysadmin subs would be a better place for this stuff.
I like the idea and would've offer it for my company, but we have 200+ domains so your plans little off.
If your launch on HN fails to get any votes in the first 5-10 minutes, and you feel your post has significant merit for the community, your best course of action is to just delete the submission and try again.
I have posted before and got no attention, I started getting attention after I changed the title. Truth is, you got to make the title as attractive since that's all users are seeing here. If the post was Show HN: "product name" then I wouldn't click it since I don't know if it'll be a waste of time.
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I have posted before and got no attention, I started getting attention after I changed the title. Truth is, you got to make the title as attractive since that's all users are seeing here. If the post was Show HN: "product name" then I wouldn't click it since I don't know if it'll be a waste of time.
Interestingly, a few startups have been putting "Show HN" in their titles even when it's especially unwarranted (i.e. a product that's been on the market a long time) for that Hacker News SEO.
In general, our conversion rate from visit to signup is around 30% but with HN traffic it was significantly lower, around ~8% for that burst of traffic. Obviously, HN is not our target demographic of users.
We do not have a paying option, thus we only have the front end conversion number at this point.
On our website, http://clara.io , we found that HN sent us about 8000 hits the day we were hovered around item 15. In general, our conversion rate from visit to signup is around 30% but with HN traffic it was significantly lower, around ~8% for that burst of traffic. Obviously, HN is not our target demographic of users. We do not have a paying option, thus we only have the front end conversion number at this point.
It is really cool! I'm teaching kids to code games and I really like using browser based tools as it makes it easier for kids to practice at home and I don't have to worry about specific OS's and hardware.