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24 alternatives to Authority Hacker - Behind The Scenes: Lessons From a Six Figure Launch

How AH went from selling $20 products to 250k+ launches

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Authority Hacker - Behind The Scenes: Lessons From a Six Figure Launch launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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2016 · its alternatives →
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I measured the half-life of 41,301 Show HN launches. It's 7 hours▲37
I scraped every Show HN from the last 12 months (41,301 posts) plus the full comment tree of every launch with 10+ comments, ~100k comment timestamps, all from the Algolia HN API. The median launch gets 2 points and 0 comments. For launches that do get traction, half the comments they'll ever get arrive within 7.2 hours and 90% within 26, and the top decile decays on the same clock as everyone else. Vote timestamps aren't public, so comment timing is the attention proxy; caveats are in the post. Everything reproduces from the repo with one command…
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Me and my buddy made $20 with a Stripe link and a Tweet▲7
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