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Poll: For how many 37signals customers can you claim credit?

18 points by cs702 ↗ HN
A recent post on 37signals's SvN blog claims that the business value of being on the front page of HN does virtually nothing for their bottom line (see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3680018 ).

Left unsaid: how many HN visitors to 37signal properties are technology influencers who have referred 37signal products to others? This poll is an effort to guesstimate the answer to this question.

For how many 37signals customers can you claim credit?

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emiller829
You should probably wrap some constraints around this. That is, for the purposes of this poll, it'd really be more relevant to know how many of the HN visitors found out about 37signals products via HN.

I think there's probably a significant correlation of 37s product users to HN users, but if there's any causation to be found here, it's likely in the direction of explaining why these posts get frontpaged, not in how these frontpaged posts lead to indirect sales.

cs702
> there's probably a significant correlation of 37s product users to HN users, but if there's any causation to be found here, it's likely in the direction of explaining why these posts get frontpaged, not in how these frontpaged posts lead to indirect sales.

I think there's causation both ways, but I structured the poll this way to address directly the questionable data on the SvN post.

FWIW, the number of customers claimed by the respondents to this poll already exceeds the number of signups the SvN post states came from HN!

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ramblerman
Hi fellas, sorry I'm late. Is this the way to the witch hunt?