How much it's worth to be #1 on Hacker News for a day

Re:How much it's worth to be #1 on Hacker News for a day by bdcravens on Tuesday September 03, 2013 @04:06PM (#6323403)

Hacker News stories are often scooped up by other news outlets. Within a day, Fox Business asked me to be on their show, Huffington Post France wrote an article about it, and I was featured briefly on Yahoo’s homepage. Here’s the video from Fox.

Congrats, though I'd say your experience happens 1 out of maybe 1000 times?

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Re:How much it's worth to be #1 on Hacker News for a day by kevin_morrill on Wednesday September 04, 2013 @03:18AM (#6326097)

Probably closer to 1 in 20 if you really get to #1 for that long. It also depends a lot on topic, and how many people it strikes a nerve with.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2057706 had 12 votes and only made it to the middle of HN frontpage, but got written up in TechCrunch on a slow news day.

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Re:How much it's worth to be #1 on Hacker News for a day by bdcravens on Wednesday September 04, 2013 @03:21AM (#6326109)

Yeah, but how many go on to major media, like Fox Business News? I suspect that had a lot to do with the success.

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