Launch day review (Product Hunt and Hacker News)
Hey everyone,
Today marks seven days since I had the idea for How to X with Y, yesterday I posted it on Product Hunt and on a whim also decided for Hacker News.
For context I have two followers on the @howtoxwithy Twitter account and twenty on my personal Twitter account.
Here is:
The Numbers
Analytics
Roughly 65,000 views, I only have statistics from CloudFront so they're a little lacking, but Hacker News was the primary driver of traffic, that much is clear.
Here is the 24 hour view of traffic:
Again, not very interesting.
Here are some graphs on server usage (5 minute periods), I run on AWS Elastic Beanstalk and had two t2.medium instances serving requests, I bumped it up to three temporarily because page load was a bit slow and a few requests were failing, nothing major though.
I now have a total of 61 users in the How to X with Y database:
Three of them are me, testing signups and the like.
The core of the product is uploading copyable code snippets, I call them "examples" in the database:
Around 30 of them uploaded were by me to seed some initial data. I did have to delete maybe 10 or so as I was getting "spammed" with people uploading junk.
Hacker News
I was on the front page for three or four hours:
Which was pretty unbelievable, the post received a total of 62 upvotes and 72 comments. There was a lot of confusion around how this was different to Stack Overflow, some criticism and some good feedback.
Overall I was happy I posted to Hacker News
Product Hunt
On Product Hunt I received 48 upvotes and 1 comment. I ended up a 14th out of 28 on the list of submitted projects for the day.
Summary
Considering this has been a 7 day long journey I am happy with it. The idea is somewhat validated and if I continue to improve it and add example code I believe people will start to use it.
As a learning experience, shipping early is definitely the biggest takeaway. My other project Portabella has been under development for six months now and I still haven't shipped, so I'll be doing that next week.
Hope you enjoyed this quick read!
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Cheers!