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Same with Fly.io, SQLite, Hetzner, etc. Hackernews is a pretty effective way to advertise to developers.
by prions 4y ago
Same with Fly.io, SQLite, Hetzner, etc. Hackernews is a pretty effective way to advertise to developers.
- atonse 4y agoDon't know about Hetzner but Fly.io and SQLite (who now seem to sort of be intertwined in making SQLite Cool Again™) just have great content.
- sascha_sl 4y agoHetzner/OVH are HN darlings not because of how innovative they are in features, but in pricing. They tend to show up as submissions mostly when something bad happens (e.g. price increase), but they still show up in comments a lot when people discuss how comically expensive cloud providers are in a direct comparison and how you can be similarly effective running on such pricing-focused hosts, especially if you know how to build the redundancy yourself (or don't need it).
- depr 4y agoWhich is a pretty effective way to advertise to developers.
- 0xbadcafebee 4y agoThe marketing strategy for anything remotely developer-oriented is literally just to find those posts where somebody figured out the best times to submit on HN.
- janee 4y agoWish there was a nice HN coffee table book documenting historic trends on here... from first post to current print date. Maybe just a bunch of illustrations of key words and a small foot note accompanying each