100 subscribers, first day on Hacker News frontpage

I crossed 100 subscribers for my newsletter, Client/Server, on Thursday! This came off the back of making the Hacker News frontpage on my Monday post.

Before that, I had gotten a lot of positive feedback from my subscribers but hadn't had a post stick on the frontpage of something yet. It had mostly been friends and friends-of-friends. So it's nice to see some validation that I'm on the right track (and the huge bump in traffic that I've gotten across the board)

This pushed me over the threshold where Substack started recommending my newslewtter on its widgets, so I've been seeing a steady trickle of new subscribers over the past few days.

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43461618

The post: https://www.clientserver.dev/p/war-story-the-hardest-bug-i-ever