Lessons learned from hitting the front page of Hacker News

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So far 7 posts got you:

- 1 twitter follower that may be unrelated

- a few app installs

- negligible ad revenue

I think you missed the most important lesson - getting 10x more of that is still awful.

In an absolute sense, maybe but 10x more would be moving in the right direction! :)

Let's run with the absolute sense. Getting 10x more front page posts will be a challenge requiring dozens of attempts and you need 100s on the front page just for awful numbers to become bad numbers!

Doing 100 front page posts this decade seems wildly optimistic, that'd be you on the front page every 10 days and it is highly unlikely HN even wants to talk about any person that often.

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