ChartDB hit the Hacker News front page after three weeks of development
Jonathan Fischner · I Built a Niche App to $9K MRR · Feb 25, 2026 · at 4:22
Jonathan Fischner, co-founder of ChartDB, describes how their initial distribution strategy on Hacker News drove immediate viral traffic.
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“The growth for ChartDB started with launch on Arker News. That got us, like, for the front page. So we started, like, developing RDB, and after three weeks of development, we decided to go for lunch, and we did some preparation, and then we decide, all right, let's choose a day and put ourselves, like, as a show HN. This show HN got working and blow up to get to the front page, what gave us thousands of engineers on the same day landing on our product.”
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