Too Long; Didn't Read
So, what happened? My first “Show HN” submission on Hacker News got to the front page in under 30 minutes (and reached #2 in under 60 minutes). It also got me from zero to over 4K page views in a single day. All of that with zero planning and for a project that didn’t even exist a week prior to my post submission. This was pretty nuts, which is why I decided to write this.