I quit my high-paying job to follow my dream of launching a startup. Here it is.

Re:I quit my high-paying job to follow my dream of launching... by mountaineer on Wednesday January 11, 2012 @01:46PM (#3453041)

Rob "CmdTaco" did some analysis - http://cmdrtaco.net/2011/10/then-along-came-hacker-news/

John Sheehan mentioned numbers the other day too - https://twitter.com/#!/johnsheehan/status/156271988195860480

Seems like the "Hacker News 10K" would be an approximate general number or its going to approach that soon.

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Re:I quit my high-paying job to follow my dream of launching... by bad_user on Wednesday January 11, 2012 @03:46PM (#3453597)

I never got 10K from Hacker News alone, but on my blog I got 10K from HN combined with Reddit, with the links being submitted at aprox. the same time, for 3 articles I wrote.

My website is static, with no MySQL or PHP to speak of (by means of Jekyll), right now hosted on an AWS micro instance, served by Nginx. Prior to this it was hosted on Heroku's free plan, with offloading of static assets to GAE. For free and it didn't even blink.

Seeing how people are talking about caching, load-balancing, clusters, beefy servers and so on, just makes me think how extremely awful and bloated Wordpress is.

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Re:I quit my high-paying job to follow my dream of launching... by dboat on Wednesday January 11, 2012 @04:14PM (#3453708)

I don't think it's fair to conclude that wordpress is awful and bloated based on it performing worse than your setup. Static files and a cdn and no dynamic script are the ultimate optimization. Wordpress compares unfavourably because anything involving dynamic features would compare unfavourably.

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Re:I quit my high-paying job to follow my dream of launching... by johns on Thursday January 12, 2012 @02:48AM (#3455443)

In the 36 hours after being on the home page the site had 13.5K visitors, 18K visits.

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