Q So before you saw the huge bump of traffic from this slide deck that got a ton of downloads, I want to know what you seeded it with. How did you start the momentum? So what was your initial list size before this big bump?
A Oh, I understand. Okay. Um, so before you exec used to be something else, but, um, me being a technical, more like engineer focused person, I would write technical articles. So I posted a few articles on Hacker News, which is Y Combinator's news stream, and it landed on the main page. It got about 500 points, uh, I think, 400 comments, and then that went into Reddit, and then it went into high scalability, which is a blog on scalable technical solutions. That first article was about most of the traffic that you pay Google and Facebook is 90% garbage, and all of the money that most of the marketers are spending on Facebook and Google specifically is via bots.
AI assessment note: “I posted a few articles on Hacker News... and it landed on the main page.”