Just a quick suggestion: I think having "Discover Pivots" on a separate Reddit- or HN-style ranking page might be better than having a bunch of popup windows.
Thank you! Yeah I know, the UI for discovering pivots is very early -- there is just so much to do and we were busy refining the pivot view first. We are definitely thinking about a concept for the homepage, possibly with snapshots of how the pivot looks. Will come next week!
The only marketing so far was to post it to HN and Forrst, and at a usually bad time too (Saturday evening). But people upvoted it a lot and it was #1 almost all Sunday: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2373785
Any front page link on HN, Reddit or StumbleUpon will get around that number of hits, no marketing required. One of my sites received nearly a million hits last month from social networks without any advertising.
Is there a way to specify the "license" for the pivot code? This might be handy--sites could take free improvements if they want--if a devoted user wanted to improve a site they dearly loved.
Additionally, you could let people sell pivots right on the site. I'm sure you're thinking of these things, though.
I like these posts a few times a year, but do we really need a post like this every couple days? We get it, articles that make the front page of HN get some page views. How is this any different than the other twenty virtually identical posts that have been on the front page in the last month?
This post may not be very different from the other similar posts, but I personally do enjoy reading about new useful projects and the impact of hitting the frontpage of HN, which is why I submitted it.
I couldn't agree more. You got 20k visitors in 7 days? Nothing to get excited about. Especially since most of your visitors must come from HN and that you might struggle to get that many visitors in the coming weeks.
If you get the same amounts, ore more. Then write about it.
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[ 3.2 ms ] story [ 45.1 ms ] threadJust a quick suggestion: I think having "Discover Pivots" on a separate Reddit- or HN-style ranking page might be better than having a bunch of popup windows.
"extending the use-szenarious (eg inviting friends to share pivots for your own website), showing a tree of pivots with their forks and ancestors"
It would be really useful to see a history of versions and easily toggle between them.
Additionally, you could let people sell pivots right on the site. I'm sure you're thinking of these things, though.