Mom, I made it to HN front page

This weekend Townsquare made it to the Hacker News front page. I had posted it on Friday, but it didn’t make much noise at first. Then I went to Rock in Rio Lisbon and mostly forgot about it for a while. On the way back home, around 3am, I saw an email from Hacker News moderation. They had liked the idea and moved the post into the second-chance pool, which meant it would get another shot on the front page. That’s when things got wild. I was checking everything on the way home: visitor numbers, server health, messages. When I opened the Townsquare landing page, the square was packed. There were people everywhere. Part of me was happy, and part of me was a little sad that I had missed the beginning of it. By then the post had already been popular for a couple of hours and there were lots of comments I hadn’t answered. Still, I don’t regret it. I was with my girlfriend, and sometimes real life should win. At some point I called my mom and told her I had made it to the Hacker News front…