I also saw ~7000 visits first day but that was in 2012. Here are some conclusions of my web traffic analysis: https://github.com/entaroadun/hnpickup/wiki/Hacke

I also saw ~7000 visits first day but that was in 2012. Here are some conclusions of my web traffic analysis: https://github.com/entaroadun/hnpickup/wiki/Hacker-News-Pickup-Rate-Web-App-Analytics https://github.com/entaroadun/hnpickup/wiki/Hacker-News-Pick... Here are multiple screen shots of the google web traffic analytics interface: http://hnpickup.appspot.com/hnpickup_web_app_statistics_snapshot.png http://hnpickup.appspot.com/hnpickup_web_app_statistics_snap...