# How is it like during the first hour when your site is on top of Hackernews

> Markdown version of https://brajeshwar.com/2011/how-is-it-like-during-the-first-hour-when-your-site-is-on-top-of-hackernews/ — 2011-12-20

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A [tweet](https://twitter.com/#!/cdixon/status/148896542462455808) led to [an article](/2011/desingineer-the-mythical-person-every-startups-are-looking-for/), which was fortunate to be on [Hackernews](http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3373702). The above two-minute video is a cut of how my site experienced the traffic during it's initial first hour on Hackernews.