Read This If You Hate Meetings

Re:Read This If You Hate Meetings by edw519 on Tuesday July 28, 2009 @02:52PM (#728547)

Yes. Hopefully it will bring more makers to hn and scare the managers away.

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Re:Read This If You Hate Meetings by pg on Tuesday July 28, 2009 @02:59PM (#728561)

I stopped linking to HN from essays several months ago. I don't want the community to grow too fast.

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Re:Read This If You Hate Meetings by robg on Tuesday July 28, 2009 @03:28PM (#728630)

What's the traffic difference between your highest visited essays and HN?

I found YC and HN through your essays. I'm wondering if that's a more general phenomenon.

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Re:Read This If You Hate Meetings by pg on Tuesday July 28, 2009 @04:27PM (#728760)

On an ordinary weekday, HN gets about 3x as many unique visitors as my site: 33k vs 11k. When a new essay is very popular, my traffic spikes up to 30 or 40k a day, or in rare cases over 50k.

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Re:Read This If You Hate Meetings by robg on Tuesday July 28, 2009 @04:38PM (#728785)

Thanks! As a comparison, how's this essay looking today? I only saw the link because it was on the front page, but I think that's one of their most popular blogs. Is the NY Times as powerful as claimed in PR circles?

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Re:Read This If You Hate Meetings by pg on Tuesday July 28, 2009 @04:52PM (#728815)

I don't know; Yahoo Store only updates stats once a day.

If I used Mixpanel (http://mixpanel.com) I could see stats in real time!

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Re:Read This If You Hate Meetings by trefn on Tuesday July 28, 2009 @08:47PM (#729209)

feel free to sign up =)

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Re:Read This If You Hate Meetings by alanthonyc on Tuesday July 28, 2009 @03:34PM (#728638)

Agreed.

As much as I like the fact that ideas coming from this site are spreading, I would also like people to work at least as much as I did to find HN.

A direct link from the NYT would be way too easy.

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Re:Read This If You Hate Meetings by weaksauce on Tuesday July 28, 2009 @03:39PM (#728653)

Has the growth rate been fairly steady or has it increased as of late?

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Re:Read This If You Hate Meetings by pg on Tuesday July 28, 2009 @04:21PM (#728744)

http://ycombinator.com/images/hntraffic.28jul09.png

Traffic spiked during applications and dipped at the beginning of summer, as it always does, but you can see there's secular growth mixed with the seasonal variation.

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Re:Read This If You Hate Meetings by jwesley on Tuesday July 28, 2009 @03:53PM (#728680)

I knows it's fun and all to hate on managers, but they do perform a valuable function within an organization. If you're successful enough as an entrepreneur, it's almost guaranteed that you'll end up as one. Just because most people here identify more with the maker does not mean manager types should be disparaged.

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Re:Read This If You Hate Meetings by edw519 on Tuesday July 28, 2009 @04:06PM (#728707)

Agreed. Any disparagement of managers was unintended.

I come here to mingle with fellow makers when I need a break from manager types. That's all.

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Re:Read This If You Hate Meetings by gaius on Tuesday July 28, 2009 @04:51PM (#728810)

In IT it seems that nearly all middle managers ended up in that job specifically to keep them from touching the systems or the codebase...

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