HN influences. It makes a wide and deeply technical circle aware. Maybe a week, month, year they suggest [or recommend to peers], etc. organic growth business like Plausible is about surviving long enough to keep growing your network effect. All these mentions and discussions add up. People remember.
exactly! our first "viral" moment was on HN too and we only got a few direct signups that day but we would never have made it to this point without being on the top of HN that time
Ah! That makes a lot more sense, thanks, I didn't spot that.
(In case Plausible people are here: I found it a lot more obvious on the desktop site, in fact when I saw it there I thought 'oh it just doesn't show the filter on mobile', but then when I switched back saw it does, I just hadn't noticed it.)
good point, thanks! we had to shorten the top menu on mobile devices to fit all the important stuff so you only see "X filters" rather than the full filter as on the desktop
https://plausible.io/plausible.io?period=30d&source=Hacker+N...
What a great demo of the product :D