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Ask HN: Made it to the HN frontpage?, what was the impact it had?

7 points by roberdam ↗ HN
Recently I had my second HN frontpage with all the perks attached: the huge spike on visits, the exposure on other media, and the peer comments & suggestions.

But since, in both posts I was not selling anything I can't really quantify or put a number on how much impact a HN frontpage could have in other aspects apart from the exposure.

This is a 10 year post from DHH with comments from Pg but I can't find nothing newer https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3680018

Care to share your experience here?

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austin-cheney
Under a different (now abandoned) account I made to the front page for the entirety of a day to about 350 upvotes. I wrote a new more accurate diff algorithm with a hacky backup for missed cases. The result was about 50,000 visits to my website and about 30,000 the next day.
achairapart
I guess it's not about mere numbers (unless you're selling some kind of commodity, where volume matters most), but - given the audience - more likely a chance to connect with the right people at the right moment.
roberdam
did you made any significant connection?
henrik_w
I have nothing to sell, just blogging because it is interesting, and (perhaps) "brand building". I can't say I have seen any impact at all really, except that it is satisfying that people like what I write.

I have had around 25 posts hitting the front page:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

caprock
Thank you for sharing. Do you know how many visits per post were received on average?
henrik_w
I think between 3000 and 6000 is typical (depending on how high it was, and how long it stayed there).
speedgoose
Once, an article about some of my work reached the top. I got rightfully destroyed in the comments because of one major mistake I did.