Thanks so much for your encouragement! Your comment made my day. I've saved tons of interesting business stories after reading many books and blog posts over the years. Would like to share them on this site going forward.
This post today is on Hacker News and doing awesome. Tomorrow's likely won't be so lucky. Or next week's. Sometimes the Twitter followers grow a ton, and then it stalls for weeks.
Just keep doing it. Sometimes someone very important and influential finds that old post everyone else seemed to ignore months ago. Sometimes it's just a single email that says, "This really helped me today."
After doing it long enough, you realize looking back, it all built on itself. None of it was wasted.