Another take on $ sign's affect
This time instead of going through all the data, I've take a look at the weekly popular feed of November
In short;
Median of upvotes
without $ with $
1st week 26.5 41.0
2nd week 25.5 42.0
3rd week 32.0 69.5
4th week 27.0 37.0
Median of replies
without $ with $
1st week 46.0 25.0
2nd week 31.5 34.0
3rd week 39.0 43.5
4th week 46.0 35.0
NOV 2ND TO 8TH, 2020
upvotes comments title
37 155 What are you working on this month?
33 157 Anyone interested in getting a landing page copy audit?
28 143 I've created a Twitter list of ~200 active Indie Hackers. Who do I miss?
81 50 How you can reach Product Hunt TOP #2 of the day with NO audience
24 100 Are you indie hacking a mobile app?
55 45 70,000 Monthly Pageviews (10 Months of Blogging)
27 66 Micro-SaaS. Who's building?
12 78 Should I start with Harvard's CS50 or Udemy's HTML, CSS, Javascript courses?
27 57 "Pay 880$ per month" - Intercom
26 57 Which stack do you use to build your side projects?
50 25 Why products should be “slick”, not just viable
21 49 Free Sales Advice Friday
26 41 A curated list of free services
41 25 How I Built a $5K MRR Newsletter Within 10 Months (and Why I Sold It)
48 15 $1125 MRR in 3 months after launch! So happy!
18 47 Willing to do anything for free
14 45 Looking for 5 committed Twitter IHs to grow their audience.
46 10 Trends #0038 — Micro Private Equity
15 40 I've incorporated my Company in UK remotely
15 39 Free Legal Advice Weekend
27 26 98 upvotes on HN, 200+ subs
33 19 I made GumHunt only for GumRoad products hunting 🥳
23 29 Why we didn’t choose Stripe to handle EU subscriptions
Without $ With $
Count 20 3
Median of upvotes 26.5 41.0
Median of replies 46.0 25.0
NOV 9TH TO 15TH, 2020
upvotes comments title
34 238 Post your link and I'll give my impression in 1-sentence
86 59 Josh Pigford sold Baremetrics
40 90 I will review for Free your MVP with a first-impression video
27 96 I will tell you how to monetize your project
77 47 How I made 0k in 6 months. No, that's not a typo.
78 34 We just hit $1M ARR for the second time. Here's my best advice.
22 68 🎁 I will give my $287 Growth Hacking Course for Free to 10 Indie Hackers
26 58 🥳 Celebrate Your Latest Content!
16 62 Who Is Starting a Newsletter Now?
42 32 SongBox breaks £400 ($520) MRR
56 19 The SaaS SEO MBA
21 45 IH, why do you want financial independence?
17 45 What are you going to build this week? 🥁
31 30 Help me break the pattern of "Build it, post it, let it die."
39 23 My Slumdog Millionaire story. Hope it inspires you today.
39 21 The Gods on HackerNews
40 17 1001 SaaS Product Ideas
24 26 I built a Twitter bot that tweets out my revenue and now it's embarrassing
41 7 Do the real thing.
14 31 What the hell should I name my product? 🤔
10 37 How do you collect emails on your landing page?
12 32 I'll consult you on how to implement custom domains for your SaaS, for free
12 32 Post your Gumroad product to get featured in our affiliate marketplace
15 28 SaaS Analytics: what tool are you using?
20 25 Trying out this whole "building publicly" thing 🤞
25 18 5% privilege tax for working remotely?
23 23 The best community platform
Without $ With $
Count 24 3
Median of upvotes 25.5 42.0
Median of replies 31.5 34.0
NOV 16TH TO 22ND, 2020
upvotes comments title
288 225 After losing $38676+ as an Indie Hacker. I can't do it anymore. I quit.
67 151 I will brutally shut down your idea and tell you to get a real job 😈
62 116 Over 300 creators are selling on the AppSumo Marketplace. Ask us anything!
23 132 Challenge: Describe what your startup does in 3 words!
81 59 Why I Quit My SaaS to Become a Writer
55 77 What tools have been most helpful to you as an indie hacker?
69 61 I made two Twitter bots with 600k+ followers and 7k users daily, for $100 per month. Ask Me Anything!
75 46 Apple gives ground, halving App Store fees to 15% for devs making less than $1 million
37 77 It's Wednesday, share your project!
70 41 AMA! I am a transgender entrepreneur, and I bootstrapped to over $40k MRR
51 52 Collection of over 3,300 ideas for you to steal.
41 41 Just wanted to share my first sale 🥳
61 19 How to start finding 1-person SAAS niches and implement related SAAS ideas? For anyone looking to build $1K MRR to $10K MRR
18 58 Do you understand my new landing page msg?
24 48 Built a product? No idea how to promote it
32 36 How did you get your followers on Twitter?
30 39 Launching on Product Hunt? #AMA
34 27 The CheapStack: How I host my website for free
38 25 $1000 in total revenue (2.5 years to $1 // 2.5 months to $1k)
40 20 Acquisition Channel of the Week: Freelancing Marketplaces
19 34 What do you need help with right now?
35 17 I am not a charity. Are you?
19 35 Help! Confused about "talk to your users" before having users
31 23 Designing User Interfaces - how I sold 1800 copies in a few months
23 29 The challenge of selling digital templates
32 19 Lessons 12 hours into a Product Hunt Launch
25 26 What's special about what you're building?
Without $ With $
Count 21 6
Median of upvotes 32.0 69.5
Median of replies 39.0 43.5
NOV 23RD TO 29TH, 2020
40 155 🔥 Let's follow each other's projects! 😎 (drop yours below) 👇
13 122 What is your biggest productivity killer?
69 50 💰The best Black Friday deals for indie hackers
21 93 How would you grow this?
74 45 Someone attacked our company
10 99 I'll give you a video review of your site design for free.
19 88 If you have zero customers and an MVP, post your link. I'll give you an honest review
72 31 How My Paid Community Made $5K in Its First Week
48 55 Acquisition Channel of the Week: SEO (with a twist)
56 46 Scale went Viral! 150,000 users in 24 hours 🚀. Here's how👇🏽
23 73 I would like to promote your product on my social media!
50 43 Acquisition Channel Opportunities #001 (Should I continue writing this?)
37 50 💰$9286 spent on marketing this month - [full report]
28 59 Curious: how many people here are parents?
43 38 The Tech Stack of a One-Man SaaS
20 60 Drop a blog article you're proud of
29 49 How did you get your first 10 users?
24 53 How do you stay focused while working on your Side Project?
37 29 #1 Most Commented On Product Of The Week on Product Hunt
39 25 How to get 14k+ new Twitter followers overnight
27 34 Stop building product that nobody needs - talk to users now
18 41 I finally joined Twitter to try out this "building in public"
23 35 I launched my first Saas and made $73k in a week (Here's the story and numbers)
20 38 So who is offering BLACK FRIDAY deals?
26 31 How do indie hackers pay the bills?
35 19 One random tweet - 159 new twitter followers and 17 project inquiries
19 34 Has anyone had any luck not creating something new and novel, and just replicating something else?
8 43 Black Friday is not for Indie Hackers
Without $ With $
Count 25 3
Median of upvotes 27.0 37.0
Median of replies 46.0 35.0
LOL, what have I done.