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Hit the front page of Hacker News. ~20k visitors

Around last week, Wireflow unexpectedly reached HN front page. It was in the first position for quite a long time. The best thing is that I didn't even submit, it was picked up by someone else.

This is a screenshot of early FP reach

Since the link from HN was pointing to my Github Repo, I didn't get direct traffic to the website. But still, I got a lot of visitors. This is a moment when the US was sleeping.

Overall it landed ~8k UV to the website, coming through the Github.

And on Github, it landed ~14.5k unique visitors with 21.7k page views. It also brought ~1.1k extra stars on the Github repo, which resulted in a total of ~1.6k stars.

Wireflow seems like a very interesting app for people. It's an old unfinished, buggy side-project that didn't get enough of my attention.

Three years ago, it was hunted on Product Hunt by some random guy who found Wireflow through Google. It would end as product #1 of the day, if my server was not down for half of the day, I didn't even know it's hunted. Even with that, it got a lot of votes and traffic.

If there is someone serious who can contribute either to development (Javascript) or through monetary value wanna take on this project, feel free to reach me.

, Founder of Icon for Wireflow
Wireflow
on October 13, 2020
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    ❤️❤️❤️

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    That seems like a lot of traffic. Do you monetize it?

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      Nope, Wireflow is an Open Source project, and it's a free tool. But it might become SaaS or one-time payment. Will see, depending on my focus.