a single source, nothing corroborates it
Submit to Show HN where the queue is thinner
Around a thousand submissions a day arrive on the main feed and a new product competes with every one of them. The show section carries a fraction of that traffic, so the same post has better odds of being seen at all. Nothing there is a certainty either: a video channel aimed squarely at the audience finished with no votes.
The method
- 01
Submit a new product to the Show HN section rather than the main feed, because far fewer things are posted there and your odds of being seen are higher.
What it returned
- 1,000
Roughly 1,000 submissions arrive daily, and a friend's Hacker News video channel - which looked like a certainty for the audience - finished with no upvotes at all.
Sources
- How to get 30,000 Hacker News visitors to your websiteHarry Dry · Marketing Examples · Lesson 3 - How to launch · undated
the second source
Three plays a week, for the phase you are in
No roundup of links, no news. Three tactics more than one builder arrived at separately, with the numbers each one returned and the disagreements left in.
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