So that's what Hacker News home page gives you...

This is gonna be a wild ride by the end of it. Buckle up.

I wrote my second blog post for Dytto. The only post we have on the blog was too lonely so I thought my personal journey leading to making Dytto would accompany it well.

I've posted my first one directly on IH first. It got some pretty unexpected attention and the website received some motivating traffic during the post being on the home page of IH.

I decided to link this second post to HN to see what happens. I've submitted Dytto's direct link yesterday but nothing much happened. This one is different though.

About an hour and a half after submitting, I received an email from DigitalOcean. Apparently my droplet was having high CPU load. Not giving it much thought I kept coding. 2 minutes later I thought I'd check my analytics dashboard.

It's not loading. Is my connection down? I don't think so, Twitter loads, fast.

Something was wrong. I got the chills run down my spine. I tried loading the app. Browser's spinner kept spinning but it was a white page for too long.

Oh, god. What the hell is going on?!

It hit me. I've typed ycomb to address bar and entered Hacker News. At this moment my blood pressure was already way too high to scan those tiny letters to see my name, so I searched the page.

It found my username. On the home page. Of Hacker News.

I immediately logged in to my Digital Ocean account and shut down the already unresponsive server. Resized it to the biggest available droplet, restarted, and kept pressing refresh on analytics dashboard. The moment it loaded, real-time box was already on the move.

So. Much. Traffic.

This is only a few minutes after restarting the server.

The numbers were going up so fast I was trembling. Literally trembling. I texted my cofounder. Repeatedly.

Is dytto.co loading?
we are on hackernews home page
server is kaputt
server cpu is at 100% (some literal random key strokes)
it's not loading goddammit, nothing is loading
(I don't even know how to translate this lmao)
HALLELUJAH IT'S RAINING VISITORS (MORE RANDOM KEY STROKES)

By the time I'm writing this we already have more than 1700 unique visitors, 20+ registrations and a 40$/mo server. I don't think I'm sleeping tonight. 😄

This journey is full of surprises for me and I want to thank everyone that gave me self-confidence and helped me get to this point. I know I'm at the very beginning, but both Dytto and me progressed so much in such a short time.

Thanks for reading!