Re:Ask HN: What do you do when you hit your MVP and are read...
by Mz on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @08:27PM
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So, let me ask you this (and this is NOT snark, honest):
What "big announcement" do you think you are capable of making that would result in some rush of visitors?
Gosh, most people have no idea how to make that happen. Do you? If you do, can I have some tips, pretty please?
Most likely, you don't even know how to engineer that. So, start putting it out there via whatever channels you are aware of that might work, such as Show HN or Twitter or whatever. It probably won't get the big rush you are expecting.
I say this as someone who sometimes posts things of mine to HN and they sometimes get a few dozen hits and eventually go up to like 100 or 200 page views. Yes, I also have one piece that has had around 40k page views over some period of weeks. In the grand scheme of things, this is not really a lot of traffic.
Even if you hit the front page of HN, it may not be the rush of visitors of your dreams of avarice. Going viral is the exception, not the norm.
What "big announcement" do you think you are capable of making that would result in some rush of visitors?
Gosh, most people have no idea how to make that happen. Do you? If you do, can I have some tips, pretty please?
Most likely, you don't even know how to engineer that. So, start putting it out there via whatever channels you are aware of that might work, such as Show HN or Twitter or whatever. It probably won't get the big rush you are expecting.
I say this as someone who sometimes posts things of mine to HN and they sometimes get a few dozen hits and eventually go up to like 100 or 200 page views. Yes, I also have one piece that has had around 40k page views over some period of weeks. In the grand scheme of things, this is not really a lot of traffic.
Even if you hit the front page of HN, it may not be the rush of visitors of your dreams of avarice. Going viral is the exception, not the norm.