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One Of The Fastest Sites You Never Heard Of

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I actually saw that interview live.(started following Andrew on twitter, so it popped up in my feed.)

I'd say the viewing experience is much different live, as opposed to viewing it afterwards. Since there are only ~25-30 or so people watching at the same time, you know that you can actually get your question answered at the end.

I think there were only like 9 comments and 3 questions during the entire interview.

Just can't wait till the last minute to ask your question. Since it takes a few minutes for twitter feed to get updated, by the time your question shows up, the interview is over.

I'd say Andrew def needs to do a better job promoting the live portion of the interviews. The twitter feed seems to be inadequate, since you get lost in the noise.

That's a great story. Here is an interesting macro data point that might help to explain why we are seeing growth from a number of How To video sites:

http://google.com/trends?q=how+to

He said 3% of all searches are 'how to' searches. Smart niche to focus on.

Anyone know why Mixergy is using bit.ly to link back to HN? Seems kinda weird.

It is kind of an unnecessary step. I forgot why I even used it. I'll try without next time.

By the way, if you're curious, you can see how many people click that link by going here: http://bit.ly/50qA6s+

I remember it had something to do with people complaining that you were asking users to upvote, but I don't really understand how switching to bit.ly would have fixed that.

Using bit.ly doesn't change the text of the links. I think the problem was that a long link broke something on my site once and so I used bit.ly ever since. Plus I like stats and bit.ly gives great real-time stats.

So it is a clone of instructables or ehow or ...?

Both those sites actually create content. WonderHowTo.com is NOT creating any of its own content. That's one of the amazing things about this business.

is it still fast now that we've all heard of it?

sorry, couldn't resist. blame the headline.

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