What to expect if your startup is featured on the front page of Hacker News

Sounds like you guys are getting what you deserve. Lots of interest in a great product. Keep up the good work.

The original HN post was http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2202781 and it had 19 points.

How many uniques did it send?

I think we were on the front of the site for about 45 minutes. We saw over 2k uniques within that time.

Then we saw another wave late that night when Europe woke up and started tweeting. The "social sharing" confirmation page continues to bring traffic, but it's slowed considerably after the first two days.