[abcd_f]

How do you pick what goes on the front page and how long it stays there? Or is it just FIFO queue with most recent on top? If so, how do you throttle it and what's the backlog?

One thing that I don't like about BetaList (as a submitter) - there's no insight into whether your submission is going to be accepted and if it is, then when it's going to be featured. If you can make your site better for submitters, you will have an upper hand over BL, which is the competitor to measure up to at the moment.

[ngoel36]

As a co-founder of Bitcast (http://www.bitcast.io - the current top listed "Kickoff"), I can say the traffic from Kickoffboost has been great!

For some rough data: We actually launched on HN a week ago and had about 120 concurrent visitors for a span of ~6 hours. I assume this link, at it's #1 ranking since ~10pm PST, is getting somewhere around 100-150 concurrents as well (because of the off timing). As a result, it seems that around 10% of Kickoffboost's traffic (10-20 concurrents) has been consistently directed to Bitcast which isn't too shabby. I'll be interested to see what the numbers look like when traffic isn't being directed from HN.

[abcd_f]

How is this even remotely relevant to what I asked?

And haven't you (or someone else from your company) had posted the exact same comment earlier under a different parent, a comment that is now gone? So presumably you just "moved" it here to get it higher up on the page. That's tacky. Don't do that.

[ngoel36]

Sorry, that was a reply to a different comment! I was going to speculate on the selection process, but the OP has done a good job of answering that above.

[d23]

You've made a lot of rude assumptions here about that poster. That's more tacky, in my opinion.