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Comment by blhack | Hacker News Reader

Out of curiosity, how long after you guys started it did you start seeing a lot of people other than you post links?

I run a similar website and it has just been my friends and I posting for about a year now (which is fine with us)...interestingly (and one of the coolest feelings I've ever gotten, I'm sure you can totally relate) somebody that I had never even heard of posted my website to yours last night and told people to check it out...Since then we've gotten about 200 signups (and 3-4 people that have been hanging out on there all day today).

Was it pretty quick after you launched reddit that you started seeing a ton of people using it? I had quite a while ago accepted that it would likely just be my friends and I posting on mine...

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A little under two weeks, after a PG mention in an essay. Sounds like you got a similar boost from a reddit appearance (oh, if only we'd had reddit to promote on back then...). Be sure to engage those users, especially if they write you; users who care enough to write feedback -- that's gold.

Then a week or so after that, we had a splendid day - neither Steve nor I needed to submit any links, we just used the site like anyone else.

It was a good thing, too, because I was hitting my limit of aliases&passwords to remember.

A little under two weeks

Well I definitely feel like a loser now, haha.

Glad I saw you posting here. I'm sure that it's gotten old by now (although I hope it hasn't) but seriously good job on reddit. That website is leaps and bounds about its competition (who is its competition anyhow? digg? fark?). I've spent more time there than I have anywhere else...truly an awesome awesome awesome community.

I hope you guys realize that, to people like me, you are literally a superstar, thanks a lot for responding to my question :).

Like a loser? Nonsense! The important part of that sentence is "after a PG mention in an essay." Just get PG to start a radical new kind of investment firm and be the first portfolio company to launch, then make sure he writes an essay where he namedrops you with a link -- easy as pie!

Seriously, though, that had a lot to do with getting reddit off to such a good start. Who wouldn't want a bunch of PG readers to set the tone of their social news website? :)

Hope you keep coming back to our Internet crack. I'd consider any website trying to steal people's attention when they're bored at work competition :) but the Internet is a big place, there's plenty of room.

I thought that I'd let you know, I got so addicted to Reddit once that I had to block it in order to get my life back. Good luck with your new ventures! You've done some awesome stuff.

Me too. I started reading Reddit when I read a PG easy, I think he was talking about how he didn't liked the name or so, but then was great and simple.

I stopped reading reddit when I found the more serious Hacker News, and saw Reddit as the site of reunion of "We are superior, rational people, reason is the only important thing in the world" male character. Cult of radical Misogyny and Atheism.

What's your site? :)

http://www.gibsonandlily.com

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