Hacker News

“So, well, the Hacker News event led to Reddit, which led to high scalability, which leads to other things. So I would say total of, what, 30,000 views.”

“Because if you do that, you will inevitably get banned, and that doesn't go with the culture of Hacker News.”

“October of 2018, I published a draft term sheet of this put it on hacker news, put it everywhere, left the comments open in the Google docs and just got like a flood of people red teaming this thing like crazy.”

“I think it's more lightning in a bottle. It's, there's been a plethora of people writing about, like, how to launch on all of these news platforms, and I do think a lot of it is very hit or miss. Like, sometimes you win the lottery.”

“And I still see a large proportion of my traffic coming from, you know, comments that I've made months ago on Hacker News, as long as the content is relevant and the tool itself is put into the discussion.”

“I launched on Hacker News. And I didn't have any profile there or any kind of, you know, yeah, any like big kind of following or backing there, but everyone really loved it, and it stayed top of Hacker News for like a day, so that got like, I can't remember ho…”

“I think Product Hunt is probably Better for kind of, like, building up the following, whereas Hacker News can be more of a kind of, yeah, you can plug away at lots of things, and it can either go sky high or nothing, so it's more of a black or white situation,…”

“Fig was at the top of hack and use basically all day. Like it was a really long day for my co-founder and me, but that got us, I would say double if not triple the number of users from hack and use as opposed to product time.”

“This is the website in when we launched in the 2014 and we got lucky. It was written up in Hacker News and some other places, and we had over 20,000 people that experienced our builder in 2014 and the first weekend.”

“Unless you sell developer tools, like, totally useless, right? We would get, we did get there a couple times. Our Google Analytics traffic spiked, and then we just got, you know, a bunch of people who said our product sucks in the comments, so that was fun.”