Alec Barrett-Wilsdon
tl;dr: screenshots of data from HN traffic read time: 8 minutes This past Sunday, I posted an article to Hacker News They seemed to like it. It got 554 points, 194 comments, and stayed on the front page for about a day and a half. It drove 24,000¹ …
Alec Barrett-Wilsdon
tl;dr: find spontaenous interactions by scraping tweets with given keywords cost: $0 build time: 5 minutes (MVP) Twitter can be a great way to connect with alike minds. But if you're here, you're (probably) not yet a Thought Leader™. Let's walk through a quick way to speed that up …
Alec Barrett-Wilsdon
tl;dr: Use advanced Google Search to find any webpage, emails, info, or secrets cost: $0 time: 2 minutes Software engineers have long joked about how much of their job is simply Googling things Now you can do the same, but for free Below, I'll cover dorking, the use of …
Alec Barrett-Wilsdon
tl;dr: set up the Reddit API and use it to generate interest data cost: $0 setup time: 5 minutes Reddit can be a great place to waste an hour or to explore particular new hobbies. It also can be a valuable source of free information on one's customers. In …
ALLAN BERGER
Yesterday I attended the Growth Hacks Conference hosted at the Broadway Studios, San Francisco. The speakers held inspiring talks (Rand Fishkin, AJ Kohn, Mike Pantoliano to mention just a few) and in each of them they gave hands-on tips on how to grow your business, how to attract people for your...