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

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Post by pieterhg »

lancewiggs wrote: post #73

Nobody has yet given feedback on your landing page for Tubelytics (1), where you said only one person signed up from the HN post. From my perspective there is simply nothing there(2), and 5 seconds looking at a static page is just not enough information for me to make a decision. That decision is not just to give you my email address, but to "sign-up", which is a huge step too far. At the very least I need a "find ou…

Thanks so much for the feedback and I agree completely. I need to tell about the product. I will relaunch it in the next 7 days.

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

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Post by NicoJuicy »

As a user, i interacted a lot on you're blog (read many articles and etc).

It's very well designed, has interesting content and it's easy to just read the next article.

It's probably one of the best blogs i've ever met (excellent place for your links (at the end of your article for a follow-up story).

And, you have converted me to the panda show. Great music!

So congrats and nice job :)

PS. You didn't convert a lot of your users, because it had nothing to do with Tubelytics. It was an awesome read, but probably missed your core audience attention :-) (personal opinion though).

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

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Post by 001sky »

This is a meta test piece also on the power of sequels ! Once people are sold on a story, you can double-down quite readily by a small incremental expenditure of work on the n+1 piece of information that enlightens/informs the previous one that people have a previous investment in (learning the plot/characters/setting, etc).

Good work !

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150+ points on HN 170+ comments on HN

280+ points on HN 90+ comments on HN

The sequel has ~2x upvotes, plus a better karma/comment ratio as well...

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

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Post by NicoJuicy »

pieterhg wrote: post #91
lancewiggs wrote: post #73

Nobody has yet given feedback on your landing page for Tubelytics (1), where you said only one person signed up from the HN post. From my perspective there is simply nothing there(2), and 5 seconds looking at a static page is just not enough information for me to make a decision. That decision is not just to give you my email address, but to "sign-up", which is a huge step too far. At the very least I need a "find ou…

Thanks so much for the feedback and I agree completely. I need to tell about the product. I will relaunch it in the next 7 days.

Good luck getting on top of HN again :P

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

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Post by NicoJuicy »

pieterhg wrote: post #6
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…

For sure, although my landing page is not really telling my product's story very well yet.

I also thought the same, if your core-audiences visited your site and they could need it, they are probably gonna enter their mail.

But i don't think a lot of HN people have YouTube video's so important, they would pay for tracking it.

I could be wrong though :)

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

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Post by pieterhg »

lelandbatey wrote: post #65
pieterhg wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

That's actually very interesting. Do your stats tell you what portion are on Linux?

Yes. This is from the last two posts:

31.64% Macintosh 24.01% iOS 22.29% Windows 13.93% Android 6.95% Linux

That's ~55% on Apple browsers and at least 65% on Webkit (if you assume everyone on Mac, iOS and Android is on Chrome/Safari).

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

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Post by jdlshore »

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…

Yep. Conversion percentages for my site drop like a rock whenever I get significant HN traffic. And my site (http://letscodejavascript.com, a programming screencast) is directly relevant to the HN audience.

I'm not complaining—even if percentages go down, signups go up—but the lesson I've taken away is that, while HN traffic is nice, it's flash-in-the-pan stuff, and not something I should pursue as a primary strategy. I think I can get better bang-for-the-buck focusing on other things, and if my work occasionally catches HN's eye, all the better.

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

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Post by beat »

timhargis wrote: post #62
KimberlyJClark wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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