353k views & 11 hours at the top of subreddit

TLDR
I got to the top of the r/internetIsBeautiful SubReddit with 353k post views and 6.6k Pageviews.

I randomly decided to post about @jsjobbs on Reddit. I went straight to the r/javascript and r/programming subreddits because my product was specifically for JavaScript Programmers and Employers. To my surprise and disappointment, I only had about 5 upvotes in both subreddits combined and there was relatively low activity on the posts for about an hour. So I went ahead to post in the r/internetisbeautiful subreddit because I saw a post here do that with success and some of the posts on the subreddit were product launches too. I went with the format: “I made a website for..” because it seemed all the posts that got to the top of the sub had that format.

Just within 5 mins of posting on r/internetisbeautiful, I started getting a lot of upvotes and some comments. Within a few hours my post had gotten to the top of the Subreddit and the traffic to my site multiplied. There were a bunch of comments and feedback on the post. It was honestly pretty exciting to see all that activity and traffic on the post . I was on the analytics dashboard for a good amount of time just watching the traffic come through in excitement :)

Sadly my post was deleted by the moderators after about only 11 hours.
As at the time of deletion it had gotten 353,000 post views, 83% upvote rate, 90 Total shares, 43 comments and 6k+ pageViews.

I got the idea that it was deleted because I broke the subreddit’s 90-10 self promotion rule and I fell for that because I’m not really familiar with Reddit but I got some really good feedback and I've gone ahead to implement some of them. I wish the post stayed longer so I could get even more feedback. One thing I noted was that the feedback from Reddit seemed to have less restraint than those I got from Twitter a while ago. Twitter folks were seemingly nicer with their comments. I didn’t really mind the Reddit feedback style though as it painted a clearer user appreciation / frustration picture for me.

I took some time to think about why I got more activity and traffic in the r/internetisbeautiful subreddit than I did in r/javascript and r/programming that are mostly core programmers and my conclusion is that Programmers in r/javascript and r/programming want to discuss about code mostly and not launches. My guess is a launch with code samples or a public repo will do better in these core programming subreddits.

I also got some new subscribers sign up to the jsjobbs.com job newsletter and 2 new paying customers the next day (for a Featured job post and a Basic job post) that I think I might have gotten as a result of the short-lived success of the Reddit post.

My conclusion is I should get more active & contribute more in the Reddit community and other Relevant communities and launch more often instead of waiting for that big launch.