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Re: We did a Show HN and it landed on the front page of Hacker News

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Post by thu »

I have posted a blog post[0] explaining I was building a redundant storage service for developers. It was on the front page for about 4 hours. I think the best place it got was about 18th. I didn't put analytics and wasn't very careful about my logs. Actually the logs report the same IP all the time: the HTTP proxy and no referrer URL :)

I got very few people who sign up (which amount to choose a login and a password, no email required), I think it was around 10. Only one person tried really the service (i.e. uploaded an SSH public key and uploaded a few files).

The interesting thing is that even when the post had slipped from the front page, it was still generating a bit of traffic, possibly doubling the number of person registering.

The best thing I got from that post though was some feedback on HN itself but also a couple of persons sent me an encouraging emails. For that reason alone, even if you're not ready (you never are), post publicly your work as soon as possible.

[0]: http://hypered.io/blog/2014-02-17-building-reesd/

Re: We did a Show HN and it landed on the front page of Hacker News

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Post by gk1 »

gdulli wrote: post #10

I feel like half of what I see here is advertisements thinly disguised as blog posts. Now this company needs to promote itself a second time by calling attention to the first time it promoted itself?

To play devil's advocate: Sometimes analyzing the results of a traffic spike can be interesting and worth sharing. I've seen other post-mortem analyses much better than this one, and I personally don't regard this as too spammy.

Re: We did a Show HN and it landed on the front page of Hacker News

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Post by nesbot »

thu wrote: post #11

I have posted a blog post[0] explaining I was building a redundant storage service for developers. It was on the front page for about 4 hours. I think the best place it got was about 18th. I didn't put analytics and wasn't very careful about my logs. Actually the logs report the same IP all the time: the HTTP proxy and no referrer URL :) I got very few people who sign up (which amount to choose a login and a password…

As another commenter mentioned "it's been documented that engagement from reddit/facebook/etc is very low". It is all about the unfiltered feedback and what you do with it.

Re: We did a Show HN and it landed on the front page of Hacker News

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Post by nesbot »

pmcpinto wrote: post #16

The landing page looks so much better now, still the 3 images are a bit heavy and maybe distract the user (2 of them are very dark and the other one have a lot of colors). I would try another images

Yes, you are probably right. We have gone as far as we can ourselves and our next action would be to bring in a designer to help out. I am only pretending to know about colours.

Re: We did a Show HN and it landed on the front page of Hacker News

#20

Post by eiji »

Since you asked:

The name is not working for me at all. I read it as an abbreviation of Pitchlet. The l and I are too close together for me. Only when I saw the link with a lower case i the lights went on. But that is not the only reason. And I can see why I might be the only person thinking of applets here.

A pitch is a "Sales presentation". There is only one thing worse than a presentation, and that is a "Sales presentation". As soon as I see "Pitch", my entire being prepares itself for a person bothering me. I think of car sales people and evereyone else who approaches me when I enter a store. Unfortunately there is only negativity associated with all that. So for me "Pitch" is a negativ word. Hey, that could just be me. It has a lot to do with cultural background. Maybe I would call it KeyPoints.

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