@Utsav and I curate Hacker News content every day and post it as a digest to our readers on WhatsApp (which you can subscribe to here: http://bit.ly/hnwadigest)
Today I opened HackerNews to curate some content and to my surprise,
My own post was on the front page of hacker news
This was funny to me cause I did not consider my link to be useful enough to make it to the front page
The link was about using Google Drive as a free backup service for your database and static storage
The project can be found here: https://github.com/negati-ve/docker-rclone-google-drive-cron-backup
Why am I sharing this on IH?
Cause I posted the link on HN after reading @Caspii's IH post about how he deleted his production database by mistake
Do you think you ended up on the front page because your idea is interesting and helpful intrinsically, or because you posted it at the right time as a sort of response to the popular production database deletion thread?
I think it was a mix of helpful and timing
haha I thought it was pure timing but my github project now has over 50 stars and a few forks. that means people did find the idea interesting and helpful
Congrats! This should be a healthy indicator that you are on track. Mind sharing if HN crowd turned into paying customers? Would be interesting to see the conversion rate - but don't feel obligated.
This was an open source docker image
No conversion was expected :)
yup