How Patio11 made me thousands of dollars

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60 points·kareemm··5 comments

This is a great case study. (And I'm not just saying that because it praises me or is ridiculously convenient given that I launched a course teaching people how to do this like two hours ago.)

In particular, I love the actual numbers about how indicia of trust increase over time. That's something which I have ample confirmation for from clients but most everybody treats that sort of data like it is a state secret.

Hats off to actually making the leap and implementing something, by the way. No lie, one of the biggest problems I have is getting people (myself, clients, people I talk to, etc) to actually do the work. Campaigns which get written sometimes fail, campaigns which don't get written fail every single time.

Yep, total fluke. Meant to post it last night, but real life got in the way.

Is it wrong that I have a strong desire to write a cheesy blog post about how patio11 made me millions of dollars, or even better about how he LOST me millions of dollars?! I think they'd get me tons of hits, bucket loads of karma, and millions of dollars in ill-gotten ad revenue on my blog. I could retire early and live the life of luxury.

Then I could follow up with a post about how my previous blog post gamed HN and got me tons of cash simply by ripping on patio11, which would be even more of the same. A double HN front page win!

Then I follow up weeks later with a "How To Game Hacker News" ebook.

I feel like I've finally discovered the ? in the Underpants Gnomes' business model.

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My next post's headline is "How I discovered the ? in the Underpants Gnomes' business model" ;)

You're jesting, but it's been done.

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