Let’s Code: Test-Driven JavaScript

Re:Let’s Code: Test-Driven JavaScript by DanielBMarkham on Wednesday February 13, 2013 @04:47AM (#5212248)

This is a great story for HN. It has current technology, a how-to slant, and it's a terrific example of how to put together a learning-driven web business. Great job, James!

ADD: I hope I'm not being too nosy, but I'd love to see some traffic and conversion numbers from you. I love the structure of this site.

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Re:Let’s Code: Test-Driven JavaScript by jdlshore on Wednesday February 13, 2013 @05:06AM (#5212299)

Thanks! I'll share what I can. I don't track site traffic (but I can tell you that I've bumped Heroku up to 4 dynos to keep response time solid) but I do track media traffic, since I pay for that separately. I've already served over twice the video bytes today as I did all day yesterday. Those are probably mostly the demo video. [1]

The main thing I track is subscriptions, and free trial conversions. Subscriptions are up an impressive amount--proportionally about the same as the media traffic, actually. It will be interesting to see if the conversion numbers change.

Credit for the site design goes to Primate in Scotland [2]. They did a beautiful job with the design as well as CSS coding, and I couldn't be happier with the result. Any remaining issues you see are my fault. :-)

[1] http://www.letscodejavascript.com/#demo

[2] http://primate.co.uk/

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Re:Let’s Code: Test-Driven JavaScript by jdlshore on Monday February 25, 2013 @09:30PM (#5283506)

Update: I've posted an analysis of the effect of the HN traffic surge here:

http://www.jamesshore.com/Blog/Analysis-of-HN-Traffic-Surge....

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