[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.