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Rene Ritchie

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Rene Ritchie's personal blog at reneritchie.net covers hardware and business. Since 2020, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.

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Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2022

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Why HN links it

HN readers link Rene Ritchie's blog for advice on video creators asking viewers for subscribers, with one commenter pointing to a post on the best way to ask for them.

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  1. robenkleene · 2021-03-19Recommends
    If you're curious why asking for subscribers is so prevalent, I recommend taking a look at this Twitter thread ( https://twitter.com/stalman/status/1369082704138883073 ) that describes the before and after effects of asking for subscribers, here's a quote: "Just the subs that came directly from the video page were 5x what they are on similar size videos". I also recommend this blog post about the best way to ask for…

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