Wow, this is an amazing story guys. Especially the part on how you hit 152 users on the first day with Hn, just gives to show how powerful the platform is.
Anyone else got a story on how HN helped them launch their startup?
We actually launched something similar to this on Nov 1, 2010 at http://21times.org. We had over 1000 people from HN sign up within the first 72 hours, and about another 500 over the next few weeks. We reposted it again on Nov 1, 2011 and had another 1000 people or so sign up.
The idea of 21times has morphed into a full startup called DailyPath (http://dailypath.com) and we're currently working full-time on it while doing an incubator in Portland (http://piepdx.com)
Anyone else got a story on how HN helped them launch their startup?