Pretty lazy article, too. I guess that should have been expected.
In fact the article that mentions his other site (the Adsense post) says nothing of thinking about it in the shower, getting feedback or scoping ideas; simply of copying an existing site, knocking out 4 posts of barely 300 words, posting about it on Reddit, and by accident creating something people like.
Still, #3 on HN, so I guess someone likes it.
Thanks for the honest critique, you are right. I should probably try harder to build a connection between the articles and actually put some information in there that people can relate to.
I think a better article might be one which went through the process and lessons learned in creating and building up your Adsense site. Even if you weren't following your own guide posted here, and it was about how you weren't 100% sure what you were doing, but you learned that this thing worked, and this thing didn't.
I suspect that's going to be more interesting to people than an article giving advice and suggestions that there's no real evidence you've actually (successfully) employed yourself.
Anyway, you win points (a literal upvote) for being good enough to tolerate and respond to criticism here.
You idea for a article is great, i think i also could great something really worth reading in that topic.
This whole thing is a play environment for me and see how people react to different things. (Like again how did that even made it to the frontpage? It was written in less than a hour)
Anyway, i really appreciate your input. Most honest response so far!