$1,500 in Monthly Recurring Revenue Came From Hacker News
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Re: $1,500 in Monthly Recurring Revenue Came From Hacker News
#2I think the title is misleading. Hacker News itself did not generate $1500, posting something on Hacker News helped your company generate $1500...
Re: $1,500 in Monthly Recurring Revenue Came From Hacker News
#3I think the title is misleading. Hacker News itself did not generate $1500, posting something on Hacker News helped your company generate $1500...
I think the result is better than getting Techcrunched for sure. HN is a better audience when targeted with a product that startups would benefit from.
Re: $1,500 in Monthly Recurring Revenue Came From Hacker News
#4Great work on converting blog readers--typically a low-converting segment--into actual paying customers.
Although I agree that your blog should target people who actually fall within your target audience--who are almost always a subset of "businesses and people with real money"--I'm curious why you think that's the reason that article did well.
Did it have a higher conversion rate than previous, similar articles?
Re: $1,500 in Monthly Recurring Revenue Came From Hacker News
#5“wantrepreneurs”
Re: $1,500 in Monthly Recurring Revenue Came From Hacker News
#6If his theory is correct, this post will generate next to nothing. However, I think he misses one major point...
The first article talked about the product offering throughout, this article doesn't even mention their company/product name. There was nothing in the second article that made me wonder what they did; in the first article I was interested in what their obvious value prop was.
Tip: write each blog post like it may or may not be a person's very first interaction with your company. Write for both audiences.
Re: $1,500 in Monthly Recurring Revenue Came From Hacker News
#7This is the first time I've come across the term "wantrepreneur" and I am immediately putting it beside "slacktivist" as a word to use often.
"While I appreciate you asking for my expert opinion on your business plan, your insistence that I sign a wantrepreneur NDA means I will pass."
Re: $1,500 in Monthly Recurring Revenue Came From Hacker News
#8I think the biggest factor in this is that baremetrics hooks up with Stripe.
It's very likely that someone who runs a website and is reading Hacker News will be using Stripe, so this is an incredibly targeted audience for that service. Maybe not such an externally valid case study, but interesting none the less.
Re: $1,500 in Monthly Recurring Revenue Came From Hacker News
#9I think the title is misleading. Hacker News itself did not generate $1500, posting something on Hacker News helped your company generate $1500...
I clicked this (original title, via the Facebook page) as someone recently posted that HN doesn't earn anything in the "why was HN down" thread after those filesystem changes
I wonder if the click-bait-ish title was inspired by that post
Re: $1,500 in Monthly Recurring Revenue Came From Hacker News
#10>...Heck, most people on Hackers News don’t even have an actual business.
>The subject matter of the post drove businesses with real money to our site.
...from Hacker News? Anyone else find this rather contradictory?