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Sanwal: Hacker News Front Page Is Useless for Non-Developer SaaS
“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.”
Falk: Hacker News drove 2x to 3x more users than Product Hunt
“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.”
Duke: Hacker News launches are hit-or-miss 'lightning in a bottle'
“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.”
McLeod: Product Hunt builds steady followings; Hacker News is an all-or-nothing lottery
“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,…”
Duke: Months-old Hacker News comments drive substantial Buttondown traffic
“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.”
Sadeghpour: Soliciting email lists for Hacker News upvotes causes bans
“Because if you do that, you will inevitably get banned, and that doesn't go with the culture of Hacker News.”
Arrigoni: Over 20,000 people used Bee during its 2014 launch weekend
“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.”
McLeod: Hitting #1 on Hacker News for a day drove 30,000 visits
“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…”