I decided to post Coolify to Hackernews, because for some reasons. No plans, no strategy, nothing. Just post it.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26624341
Hackernews literally went on fire for more than 20 hours. I was in the top 5 for 20 long hours! No idea why.
Some said it was because of the catchy title. If I promote or talk about it, I say it's "an open-source, hassle-free, self-hostable Heroku & Netlify alternative". I never think about this title as a marketing thing, but it looks like it is. I really like what Heroku and Netlify do, and I would like to give the world an open-source alternative.
More about it: https://andrasbacsai.com/ive-set-hackernews-on-fire-how-i-did-it