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Nick Lafferty
Personal blog · nicklafferty.com/blogbusinessai
Nick Lafferty's personal blog at nicklafferty.com covers business and ai. Since 2020, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-31, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters cite this blog's post on what happened after reaching the HN front page, which reports visitor counts (about 18,000 in a day), LinkedIn views and newsletter sign-ups, when discussing HN traffic.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Nick Lafferty is an AI search and AEO expert, conference speaker, and the Founding Marketing Engineer at Profound. He writes about how brands win citations in ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity.
Most-linked posts?
- /blog/what-happens-when-you-re-on-the-front-page-of-hacker-news/5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2020-07-04
What Hacker News says?
Well here is a link about someone who made the front page in January: https://nicklafferty.com/blog/what-happens-when-you-re-on-th... They said they got 18,000 hits in one day. That's a tiny amount of traffic for any decent static website (which this one that we are talking about is). Even assuming they got all that traffic in one hour, that's only 5 requests per second.
Comment linking /blog/what-happens-when-you-re-on-the-front-page-of-hacker-news/
on “Screw it, I’ll host it myself”Submitted I Spent $6M on Google Ads Last Year as a story · 418 points
HN discussionThe United States is the world's third most populous country, and home to a number of technology businesses–one of the main draws of the site. I don't know if anyone has officially disclosed Hacker News's traffic data, but a lot of people have done analysis of what kind of traffic they get from being on the front page and it's invariably dominated by the United States: https://nicklafferty.com/blog/what-happens-when…
Comment linking /blog/what-happens-when-you-re-on-the-front-page-of-hacker-news/
on “Show HN: USA.css – units set in inches, 1776 bytes”Submitted Beam Analytics Review: Best Plausible Alternative? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionBased on past posts about what happened after getting front-paged on HN, I don't think it's necessarily the case that the surge of interest will pay off 4 months of development work: https://nicklafferty.com/blog/what-happens-when-you-re-on-th... 18,000 website visitors. 400+ LinkedIn Profile Views 15+ connection requests 100+ newsletter subscribers Numerous emails from people all around the world. If you sent me an…
Comment linking /blog/what-happens-when-you-re-on-the-front-page-of-hacker-news/
on “We worked for 4 months to build a port for Stadia and today we finished it”Submitted Unpluq Review: Reduce Your Screen Time with This App (2023) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSource on the millions? This person says they got 12k visitors over a day: https://nicklafferty.com/blog/what-happens-when-you-re-on-th... The websites hugged to death by this forum are usually tiny hobby projects.
Comment linking /blog/what-happens-when-you-re-on-the-front-page-of-hacker-news/
on “So this guy is now S3. All of S3”Getting to the front page of HN brings a lot more traffic than "a few dozen visitors at once". https://nicklafferty.com/blog/what-happens-when-you-re-on-th... https://thehftguy.com/2017/09/26/hitting-hacker-news-front-p...
Comment linking /blog/what-happens-when-you-re-on-the-front-page-of-hacker-news/
on “What I learnt shopping for decent computer speakers”
