Thanks HN: Readable is doing very very well

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by tastefulwords • 15 years ago

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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.

tastefulwords5• 15 years ago

Clickable: http://readable.tastefulwords.com/

tastefulwords5• 15 years ago

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.

xnerdr• 15 years ago

Hello,

Although many content pieces on the internet are provided completely free, some of the content producers make a living from the advertising revenue their work provides. Without that revenue, they would stop producing their interesting articles.

Your application circumvents this revenue stream.

How do you feel about this?

karterk• 15 years ago

> 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?

tastefulwords5• 15 years ago

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.

ColinWright• 15 years ago

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!

tastefulwords5• 15 years ago

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.

Thanks HN: Readable is doing very very well

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