the monday morning experiment — 54 posts waiting for US traffic
this is a live experiment. i posted 54 articles on indie hackers over the past 2 weeks. all of them have zero engagement as of sunday night.
my hypothesis: IH traffic peaks on US monday mornings. the posts will start getting views between 8-10am ET.
im tracking every post via a python monitoring script that checks comments and votes every 30 minutes.
the setup
- 54 IH posts live
- topics: cold email, scraping, data products, pricing, chrome extensions, free samples, gumroad, etsy
- a free sample product linked in most posts
- a $19 lead list as the conversion target
what im measuring
- first post to get a comment
- first post to get an upvote
- which topic gets engagement first
- whether the free sample gets any downloads
- time from monday morning to first engagement signal
my predictions
- first engagement happens between 8-10am ET monday
- the honest failure posts get more engagement than product posts
- the free sample post converts better than the direct $19 pitch
- total monday engagement across all 54 posts: 5-15 comments, 10-30 votes
ill update this post with actual results tomorrow.
free sample: https://vemtrac.gumroad.com/l/blole
lead list: https://vemtrac-outreach.pages.dev/leads
anyone else tracking engagement patterns by day of week on IH?
