Start with making your website as good as you can, and creating at least 3-5 pieces of high quality content.

After that the easiest thing you can do is to submit links to reddit, g+ and fb communities, stumbleupon, etc. That can give you your first 50-150 visitors. Just be careful not to spam)

Make sure to put subscribe button on your website so that people who read and like your articles/vids would come back.

After that - either just keep creating and sharing cool stuff and grow "organically", or learn SEO and pay for ads to grow faster.

But really there's no cheatcode, just create great stuff that people will love and share.

Focus on creating quality content that will make people come back and share with others. Sorry but it takes hard work, not a quick "growth hack."

If it's going to be a "lad bible", I think quality content is probably less important than outrageous headlines and spamming social media...

I want it to become the lad bible we can all enjoy instead of hate on haha :) quality content > headlines and spam.

I've managed to gather 3 or 4 content volunteers throughout the day so i'm feeling as if the site has tripled in size (atleast in my head it has)

Just build it, none of anything you talk about matters, you won't even end up doing 10% of the things you mentioned.

> there is genuinely nothing to like to

Fix this first

Growth Hacks are the One Weird Trick™s of HackerNews.

everyone loves a buzzword :)

Wait for longer than a day.

and then.....