I went viral on Hacker News again

I got 14,000 new visitors to my website at the weekend. Someone shared an interview I did with a French founder who makes $10k/month from his French learning SaaS on Hacker News: https://www.highsignal.io/companies/making-10k-m-french-learning-app/

I was actually just about to go to sleep after a long week of travel when Benjamin, the founder I interviewed, told me someone had submitted it to HN. Other friends started messaging me with screenshots showing 130 upvotes. It ended up with 183 upvotes after a few days: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36086984

I quickly opened my laptop, wrote a reply in the the thread and then went to bed. The next day I woke up to 130 new email subscribers! I tweaked my newsletter sign up form a little bit and added a link to my Twitter ghost writing page.

You can never predict when something will take off on Hacker News. I still think it's better to grow from more predictable traffic sources like social media and SEO. But it's still very gratifying that someone would share something I put together on the internet and that 16,000 people would see it 😀