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PG: The biggest source of stress for me at YC was running HN

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482 points ilamont | 1 comments | 11 Jul 20 21:53 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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ksec ◴[12 Jul 20 01:38 UTC] No.23807916[source]▶
I do wonder what sort of traffic HN gets in terms of Page view. Would HN consider self hosting an analytic like plausible or other cloud solution where the information is public?
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dang ◴[12 Jul 20 04:23 UTC] No.23808787[source]▶
These days around 5.5M page views daily and something like 5M unique readers a month, depending on how you try to count them.

pg used to post graphs sometimes using an old Google API where you could supply all the data points in a URL and it would return an image. Edit: like http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=ls&chco=ff7700,000000..., which still works! via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1833276

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1. nojvek ◴[12 Jul 20 05:36 UTC] No.23809119[source]▶
Wow. Thanks for sharing the numbers. 5M uniques is impressive. That feels like a pretty decent market share of all developers in the world.

Thank god HN doesn’t run paid ads. Otherwise I can see marketers spending crazy money for promoted posts. I hate how Twitter injects promoted posts into my feed. Thank you for keeping the ad-holes away from here.