Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

What happens when you're #1 on Hacker News for a day

levels.io

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

31–40 of 111 posts

Re: What happens when you're #1 on Hacker News for a day

#31

Post by bdcravens »

benologist wrote: post #5

These numbers tell me I’ll have to completely change the landing page as it’s not converting well. Don't optimize your site for HN unless you want to spend the next two years crawling towards your first thousand users - YouTube publishers in significant numbers just don't hang out here. Most startups should take heed of those numbers[1] too before they design a content strategy around HN hoping that will give them tr…

So much truth here. You may have a perfect landing page and still have less than 1/2% conversion. An HN traffic spike is a vanity metric unless you're selling to developers (with the very outside chance you'll impress upon a VC or someone else that provides value to your business)

Re: What happens when you're #1 on Hacker News for a day

#32

Post by [deleted] »

phaus wrote: post #20
RyanZAG wrote: post #3

Really interesting read on how much interaction HN brings. There is a lot to be said for quality over quantity when it comes to page views. I believe you are wrong about dismissing that top comment in the other post as snarky, negative and useless. That comment has a lot of very useful information from someone who appears to have been doing the Thailand thing longer than you have. 1) Thai law was brought up a number…

One of the annoying parts of this article was that the author dismissed the comment as "non-factual" without providing any evidence or explanation. Apparently whenever someone writes something that the author disagrees with, it is automatically categorized as snark.

[deleted]

Re: What happens when you're #1 on Hacker News for a day

#33

Post by itafroma »

phaus wrote: post #20
RyanZAG wrote: post #3

Really interesting read on how much interaction HN brings. There is a lot to be said for quality over quantity when it comes to page views. I believe you are wrong about dismissing that top comment in the other post as snarky, negative and useless. That comment has a lot of very useful information from someone who appears to have been doing the Thailand thing longer than you have. 1) Thai law was brought up a number…

One of the annoying parts of this article was that the author dismissed the comment as "non-factual" without providing any evidence or explanation. Apparently whenever someone writes something that the author disagrees with, it is automatically categorized as snark.

It's somewhat apt that a snarky, non-factual comment attacking the author like this has risen to the top once again.

> One of the annoying parts of this article was that the author dismissed the comment as "non-factual" without providing any evidence or explanation.

He didn't dismiss the comment as non-factual without providing any evidence or explanation. If read carefully, he:

* stated the other commenters called it out as non-factual (it appears at least one commenter did do that[1])

* claimed half of the dispute could be attributed to not reading the post carefully

* provided an example of where the top comment was mistaken or misread (commenter focused on Bangkok when the original story explicitly stated Bangkok was a bad place to live)

* offered up an example of a comment that he believed to be factual (the second-to-the-top one[1])

> Apparently whenever someone writes something that the author disagrees with, it is automatically categorized as snark.

No, it isn't. But this sentence here—where an author's attentions are sarcastically and baselessly mischaracterized off of a misreading (or lack of reading?) of his or her post would definitely qualify as snark.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6541956

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6540371

Re: What happens when you're #1 on Hacker News for a day

#36

Post by phaus »

itafroma wrote: post #33
phaus wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

One of the annoying parts of this article was that the author dismissed the comment as "non-factual" without providing any evidence or explanation. Apparently whenever someone writes something that the author disagrees with, it is automatically categorized as snark.

It's somewhat apt that a snarky, non-factual comment attacking the author like this has risen to the top once again. > One of the annoying parts of this article was that the author dismissed the comment as "non-factual" without providing any evidence or explanation. He didn't dismiss the comment as non-factual without providing any evidence or explanation. If read carefully, he: * stated the other commenters called i…

The original comment wasn't attacking the author, it was simply stating that while many people seemed excited at the prospect of flying off to Thailand (one person even emailed the author after booking tickets) that they should slow down and consider the expenses and lifestyle changes involved. His response was clearly intended to be humorous, but that doesn't mean that it was intended to reflect negatively on the author. His experience was that Thailand was an expensive place to live, I don't understand how you interpret that as an attack against the author. Like other people have mentioned, Thailand is a rather large place.

>He didn't merely dismiss the comment.

In his article, he only mentioned that he and many others felt that the comment was inaccurate. That doesn't constitute evidence or explanation. If you are stating something as a position in an article, it makes sense to present at least a modicum of support for that position within the article itself. Sure, you can cite sources, but in this case, his citation amounts to "some other people said that the statement I'm about to make is correct."

Re: What happens when you're #1 on Hacker News for a day

#37

Post by pieterhg »

joeblau wrote: post #30

I wrote http://gitignore.io and I saw a lot more traffic and traction by posting a link to my website in Reddit's /r/git than I did on Hacker News. Have you tried posting on different mediums and comparing the results?

Not yet, I'm finishing the launch version this week and will start posting it around then. Thanks for the tip :)

Re: What happens when you're #1 on Hacker News for a day

#38

Post by pieterhg »

Avalaxy wrote: post #35

Hacker News is strange... Post that describe a product that was built in a weekend manage to reach #1 all the time, but when I submit my project that I've been working on for more than a month, everyone collectively ignores is, and it receives 0 upvotes.

You might be suffering from the fact that HN seems predominantly OSX-based and your app is for Windows 8. From my stats, only 1/5 of HN is on Windows.

Re: What happens when you're #1 on Hacker News for a day

#40

Post by fascinated »

phaus wrote: post #20
RyanZAG wrote: post #3

Really interesting read on how much interaction HN brings. There is a lot to be said for quality over quantity when it comes to page views. I believe you are wrong about dismissing that top comment in the other post as snarky, negative and useless. That comment has a lot of very useful information from someone who appears to have been doing the Thailand thing longer than you have. 1) Thai law was brought up a number…

One of the annoying parts of this article was that the author dismissed the comment as "non-factual" without providing any evidence or explanation. Apparently whenever someone writes something that the author disagrees with, it is automatically categorized as snark.

Yeah, it was really interesting to hear a more seasoned perspective, other than "whoa asia is awesome if you go for a bit".
Post reply on HN