Ask HN: How did you get to the front page?

6 pointsmmoustafa1y ago2 comments

It seems more elusive than ever to get over 5 people to click your link and check out your project.

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In my limited understanding it is a HN feature. If it wasn't that way, HN would be awash with product announcements and spam.

gus_massa1y ago

Have you seen the logs? As a rule of thumb, the number of visitors is 50+100*N, where N is the number of upvotes. So a few of your posts should have a few hundred of visitors.

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