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Thanks HN: Readable is doing very very well

8 points| tastefulwords | 15 years ago | reply

Thanks to being featured on HN, 3 days ago, Readable has been making the rounds.

It's still being posted to Twitter and Facebook; and people seem to be very happy with it -- the number of active users has more than doubled, and the number of article conversions per day has almost tripled. I've also heard lots of great ideas for improvements -- especially on HN, but also privately via email conversations.

So stay tuned. Lots of cool stuff to come.

Read on! :)

P.S. Would anyone be interested in a post detailing traffic as a result of being written about in LifeHacker VS the HN front-page?

P.P.S. I'm honestly not trying to draw even more traffic this way. I really really wanted to thank the community -- a lot.

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[+] ColinWright|15 years ago|reply
It's no longer possible to indicate assent by upvoting an existing comment - an undesirable side-effect of hiding karma on comments. As a result, I have to comment:

    Would anyone be interested in a post detailing traffic
    as a result of being written about in LifeHacker VS the
    HN front-page
Hell Yeah!
[+] tastefulwords|15 years ago|reply
Actually, it would still be possible to do that, if we instituted some sort of a HN-wide policy that the person who wants to gauge interest should make that to-be-upvoted comment -- that's because comment authors do see the pints of their own comments.
[+] tastefulwords|15 years ago|reply
Clickable: http://readable.tastefulwords.com/
[+] tastefulwords|15 years ago|reply
Oh and one more thing: I'm honestly not trying to draw even more traffic this way. I really really wanted to thank the community -- a lot.

The clickable link is here just because some of you think it's bad form to post about an app, without a clickable link.

[+] karterk|15 years ago|reply
> P.S. Would anyone be interested in a post detailing traffic as a result of being written about in LifeHacker VS the HN front-page?

Do you really think we will say no?

[+] tastefulwords|15 years ago|reply
Not really. But I want(ed) to see if there is genuine interest in something like that.

I'd hate to write/post uninteresting stuff.