[HN Gopher] Hacking Hacker News for Fun and Profit - Part 1
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Hacking Hacker News for Fun and Profit - Part 1
Author : eranation
Score : 63 points
Date : 2021-10-26 16:43 UTC (6 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (blog.arnica.io)
(TXT) w3m dump (blog.arnica.io)
| bigdict wrote:
| Instead of sending thousands of requests through that API you can
| download the full official dump on Google BigQuery Datasets.
| niros_valtos wrote:
| Author of the post here (Nir, CEO of Arnica). Thanks for the
| feedback! That's a great tip, I wish I knew before. I'm not a
| developer (our developers are busy building the actual product)
| so I learn new things every day. I'll give the BigQuery dataset
| a try. EDIT: I took a look and it seems like that the last
| modification was on 2016.
| neogodless wrote:
| > I'm not a developer ... so I learn new things every day
|
| Hopefully, that's true for developers, too!
| mountaineer wrote:
| I don't believe that BigQuery dataset is actively updated?
| def_true_false wrote:
| TFA doesn't contain much advice for article authors. It reads
| more like a guide to farming karma. In which case, here is a
| better trick: When a decent article is posted, go and post
| another article from the same author/website, another article
| about the same topic or a competitor (release announcements
| trigger this pattern reliably). You can probably automate this.
| barbazoo wrote:
| So this is a link to a blog post on the frontpage of HN detailing
| the analysis of how to get a post onto the front page of HN
| because "a great post can save months of organic growth and give
| you that much needed bump of early adopters" while at the same
| time saying nothing about the actual product or service they're
| working on, other than "we are in stealth mode but sharing some
| cool stuff about DevOps and Security". Seems like a missed
| opportunity, unless their business is figuring out when to post
| to HN for it to be most likely to become "viral".
| mrgalaxy wrote:
| I feel like if they can do it once, they can do it again. Maybe
| they are just trying to prove something.
| barbazoo wrote:
| Maybe, or maybe posts about how succeed on HN are just
| particularly popular.
| Zababa wrote:
| I clicked on it thinking is was "hacking" in the black
| hat/white hat sense.
| mrgalaxy wrote:
| I mean I clicked on it for that reason, so you're not
| wrong.
| eranation wrote:
| Good point, and thanks for the feedback! We had this debate
| internally. We feel we need some more time to polish the
| product before launching, and had an internal discussion on
| whether we postpone any marketing activity till after we
| launch, or start engaging with the community sooner. In this
| case, we just wanted to share our learning.
| podiki wrote:
| Interesting data and analysis to see (who hasn't wondered if
| there's a "best" time to post?) though I fail to see what that
| would have to do with any actual product. Sure, HN can give you a
| ton of views, but it is a pretty particular audience.
| Loughla wrote:
| >but it is a pretty particular audience.
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| With massive amounts of discretionary income available to
| spend, influence and connections in (at least) the tech sphere,
| and access to networks full of literal billionaires.
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| The right post/series of posts could grant you access to all of
| those things.
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| Hell, I bought a remarkable because of an HN post. That's just
| one thing, but it's real.
| [deleted]
| qmarchi wrote:
| What post convinced you to get the ReMarkable?
| Loughla wrote:
| Reading some of the other use-cases on here. It seemed like
| it would fit my need. It 100% does, except that you can't
| tag pages, so searching through is a real pain in the ass.
| Fnoord wrote:
| > Hell, I bought a remarkable because of an HN post. That's
| just one thing, but it's real.
|
| Not this one I suppose [1]. Spoiler: "Our new Connect
| subscription service"
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| [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29000674
| [deleted]
| macintux wrote:
| Extremely minor nitpick, but you use "EST" where I assume you
| just mean "Eastern". (I know I'm fighting a losing battle on this
| one, but for a technical audience accuracy would seem to be
| important.)
| niros_valtos wrote:
| Not a nitpick at all. Fixed.
| ofou wrote:
| I missed views / karma points to see if there's any correlation.
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