[wheelerwj]

how do people get a "hey HN" welcome line up on their site so quickly? This was posted here less than 2 hours ago. Do people really monitor incoming referrals hourly?

[blhack]

I mean...yes? Back when I had a dedicated office, there was a screen that was tail -f on various logfiles watching website traffic.

My sites were all personal projects, so the traffic was low enough that I could notice an uptick in traffic visually.

Also things like google analytics etc.

[detaro]

It was posted by the creator, that makes it quite easy ;)

[Geee]

I think most folks do it automatically, e.g.

    Hey { referer }, ...

I was surprised the text was still there in incognito mode.

[zaroth]

There must be an app to notify you of HN/Reddit/Tweets that mention your domain?