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Re: Tell HN: Launch HN Test

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Post by gus_massa »

bor0 wrote: post #71
dang wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Reddit is a hundred times bigger. It's not just that we aren't in their league...our league is not in their league. So the comparison is a little embarrassing. It's hard to count active users because you have to define them in order to count them, and we make a point of not tracking people that much. We can count accounts and unique IPs, and that's about it. But it's basically about 5M readers a month, give or take,…

> we wouldn't want to go full Haskell and avoid success at all costs Can you elaborate on that statement? To me, it implies that going with Haskell avoids success, but I might be missing something. If that really is the implication, can you explain?

I interpreted that as "allow only very technical post in Erlang or Haskell"

Re: Tell HN: Launch HN Test

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Post by etherio »

Since apparently someone else posted their launch here, I guess I will too lol. This thread is really interesting :).

I'm launching www.devol.io -> a social community for coders. The user base is quite small but I hope we can build it and grow it into something cool!

Re: Tell HN: Launch HN Test

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Post by exikyut »

dt3ft wrote: post #45
phoe-krk wrote: post #40

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I am not kidding. The website is unreachable for me from Poland. https://i.imgur.com/aQddPrf.png

Odd. The GEO FW rule was disabled, but I don't know how long it may take for CF to react. Are you able to connect through a proxy/vpn from another country? I'm fairly sure you've lost interest at this point, but if you got time to kill, I'd love to "debug" this and see what's up.

If you're really curious, maybe ask in #cloudflare on freenode. IRC feels more relaxed than email, but in turn I've no idea how long you'd be waiting for a reply. The worst outcome is discovering the issue is due to a site misconfiguration or glitch, but considering that the screenshot is showing "Cloudflare: working" it just might be an issue on CF's end.

The alternate possibility is that the "cloudflare" keyword watcher I'm pretty sure CF runs might cause this whole issue to mysteriously go away :)

(jgrahamc, I'm curious: are you reading this? :D)

Re: Tell HN: Launch HN Test

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Post by nojvek »

dang wrote: post #30
Hitton wrote: post #26

I'll use this as an opportunity to ask something. Are there any stats how many active users does HN have, on how many servers it runs, on which database etc.? Because I have recently wanted to look at my older saved/upvoted posts/comments on reddit and found out that you can look only at last 1000 posts and it does various other things to save resources. HN doesn't seem to do things like that and still feels much sna…

Reddit is a hundred times bigger. It's not just that we aren't in their league...our league is not in their league. So the comparison is a little embarrassing. It's hard to count active users because you have to define them in order to count them, and we make a point of not tracking people that much. We can count accounts and unique IPs, and that's about it. But it's basically about 5M readers a month, give or take,…

5M is big. Wow! I mean that’s a large enough number that if you did a LaunchHN with a $50/year subscription and only .01% subscribed, you can have a sustainable solo SaaS business with 250k ARR.

Re: Tell HN: Launch HN Test

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Post by hurflmurfl »

yread wrote: post #32
_-___________-_ wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"0123Test" is a better number-containing string for testing, to catch out things that try to interpret the string as a number first and then as a string if that fails. For example, JS's insane parseInt function will give you 123 for "0123Test".

> parseInt("0123Test") 123 > 0123 83 parseInt is actually the adult in the room

    > parseInt('0123Test', 8)
    83
you could do it like this, otherwise it uses the default value for the base parameter.

Re: Tell HN: Launch HN Test

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Post by kick »

dt3ft wrote: post #44
jmiserez wrote: post #38

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That's insane, but in line with what other (local) sms gateways charge here. But do you really need my phone number?

I have experience with building a very large community where registration was based on e-mail alone. Racism & general hate don't even begin to describe the things that came along with anonymity and disposable e-mail...

Why not put a soft limit on the amount of signups-through-mail a day?

After xyz signups through it, make the rest of the day's accounts require manual approval for the first few posts.

You can also mitigate the disposable mail problem pretty easily by requiring whitelisting for any domain that's got more than a few accounts tied to it.

That comes out way cheaper for you, and might improve the quality of conversation (because there are valid reasons for anonymity and pseudonymity).

EDIT:

Also, bug report: the category row at the top doesn't overflow very well; on smaller window-sizes, there are many categories out of view. Maybe make the hamburger menu come up on more than just mobile screen factors?

Re: Tell HN: Launch HN Test

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Post by jborichevskiy »

dang wrote: post #5

Ok, since this is getting attention, I'll explain. Launch HN posts for YC startups are one of three formal things that HN does for YC ( https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... ). The others are job ads for YC startups, and orange usernames for YC alumni—but only when displayed to other YC alumni, which always generates "why is my username not orange" emails. But I digress. Launch HNs are like…

> Frustration reaching a tipping point and boiling over is my gateway into the code these days.

Couldn't have put it better myself. Thanks for the work you do!

Re: Tell HN: Launch HN Test

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Post by [deleted] »

bor0 wrote: post #71
dang wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Reddit is a hundred times bigger. It's not just that we aren't in their league...our league is not in their league. So the comparison is a little embarrassing. It's hard to count active users because you have to define them in order to count them, and we make a point of not tracking people that much. We can count accounts and unique IPs, and that's about it. But it's basically about 5M readers a month, give or take,…

> we wouldn't want to go full Haskell and avoid success at all costs Can you elaborate on that statement? To me, it implies that going with Haskell avoids success, but I might be missing something. If that really is the implication, can you explain?

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Re: Tell HN: Launch HN Test

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Post by SAI_Peregrinus »

bor0 wrote: post #71
dang wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Reddit is a hundred times bigger. It's not just that we aren't in their league...our league is not in their league. So the comparison is a little embarrassing. It's hard to count active users because you have to define them in order to count them, and we make a point of not tracking people that much. We can count accounts and unique IPs, and that's about it. But it's basically about 5M readers a month, give or take,…

> we wouldn't want to go full Haskell and avoid success at all costs Can you elaborate on that statement? To me, it implies that going with Haskell avoids success, but I might be missing something. If that really is the implication, can you explain?

To me it means that the Haskell project is strictly an academic experiment and seems to avoid mainstream success for itself at all costs. Not that projects using it can't achieve success, just that it'll never be popular and tries very hard not to be, though not really with that intent.
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