[anigbrowl]

OP, if you're bootstrapping this thing at a tiny scale it looks like you've just been hit with the 'HN hug of death' as the wide readership of the website often yields a huge surge of incoming traffic to anything which lands on the front page.

While someone else sorts this problem out (or you just wait for it to subside) perhaps you could explain the concept and goals here in the meantime. Don't feel bad, this happens to lots of people.

[mickdaisy]

Thanks for this! This is a super small nights/weekends experiment with a dozen or so active users; I probably should have prepared for a spike, huh? I'll leave a top-level comment to summarize the thinking before I jump back over to keeping it alive . Thank you again.

[bifrost]

Pre-rendering the landing page can help too.