What Being on the Front Page of Hacker News Does to Your Indie App

Re:What Being on the Front Page of Hacker News Does to Your ... by CM30 on Monday August 27, 2018 @11:56AM (#17852211)

Hmm, 100 installs for 17,000 sessions. Seems kinda low, though it maps pretty well to the old 1% rule, with 0.5% of those who visited seemingly installing the app.

Still, I do wonder how it compares to other apps/sites advertised here. Personally, I'd guess that targeting Hacker News users in particular will get you more traffic/points/signups than advertising a normal app or startup here might. That seems to be the rule with 'companion' sites and apps these days.

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Re:What Being on the Front Page of Hacker News Does to Your ... by ben_jones on Monday August 27, 2018 @12:22PM (#17852377)

I'd love to see that in the context of mobile/desktop visitors. My hunch is that HN has a disproportionately high number of desktop users (when compared to other "news" sites) and that there is a very high bar for a desktop user to pull out their phone and download a mobile app as opposed to a web app that incorporates an oauth based registration option.

The mobile app experience of a) downloading the app and b) going through a potentially lengthy registration process using a mobile keyboard - is a big turnoff imo.

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Re:What Being on the Front Page of Hacker News Does to Your ... by briandear on Monday August 27, 2018 @02:05PM (#17853105)

I might be an anomaly, but I only read HN on mobile, usually when I am waiting for something. If I am at my desktop, I have real work to do while on mobile, I am usually passing time waiting on something or another.

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