Hacker News: InfinityX0

ChatGPT traffic quality is no longer better than Google's

InfinityX0 — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 14:32:04 +0000

Article URL: https://www.siegemedia.com/research/ga4-engagement-rates

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45198288

Points: 1

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SEO for Funded Startups

InfinityX0 — Mon, 04 May 2020 15:41:39 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ky9vtnAplOQ

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23069335

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Startup statistics and recent trend data

InfinityX0 — Thu, 08 Aug 2019 22:45:08 +0000

Article URL: https://www.embroker.com/blog/startup-statistics/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20649647

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

The buildings of our fathers

InfinityX0 — Tue, 07 Nov 2017 22:22:48 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@rosshudgens/the-buildings-of-our-fathers-9bb406898fac

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15648239

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Silicon Valley's secret

InfinityX0 — Tue, 14 Mar 2017 22:43:12 +0000

Article URL: http://edition.cnn.com/videos/cnnmoney/2017/03/08/mostly-human-silicon-valleys-secret.cnnmoney/video/playlists/atv-mostly-human/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13872170

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Peter Thiel on Failure

InfinityX0 — Tue, 13 Dec 2016 05:47:19 +0000

In responding to the question "How important is failure in business?".

"I think failure is massively overrated. Most businesses fail for more than one reason. So when a business fails, you often don't learn anything at all because the failure was overdetermined. You will think it failed for reason 1, but it failed for reasons 2 through 5. And so the next business you start will fail for reason 2, and then for 3 and so on."

-Peter Thiel on Tim Ferris podcast (http://fourhourworkweek.com/2014/09/09/peter-thiel/), grabbed from his recent book, Tools of Titans

Definition of overdetermined: "To determine, account for, or cause something in more than one way or with more conditions than are necessary."

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13164794

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

Surviving Alone in the Wilderness for a Month

InfinityX0 — Tue, 18 Oct 2016 21:24:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.lifelisted.com/blog/surviving-alone-in-the-wilderness-for-a-month/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12738858

Points: 11

# Comments: 0

Better (2008)

InfinityX0 — Fri, 17 Jun 2016 04:52:18 +0000

Article URL: http://www.merlinmann.com/better/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11920747

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

How to Increase Website Traffic by 250,000+ Monthly Visits

InfinityX0 — Sun, 13 Mar 2016 01:52:50 +0000

Article URL: http://www.siegemedia.com/increase-website-traffic

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11275755

Points: 8

# Comments: 1

How much money successful entrepreneurs started with

InfinityX0 — Thu, 25 Feb 2016 21:59:18 +0000

Article URL: https://www.lendingtree.com/how-much-money-successful-entrepreneurs-started-with-article

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11178172

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

Ask HN: How much $ did you have when you started your first business?

InfinityX0 — Wed, 02 Dec 2015 01:40:56 +0000

Curious - how much did you have? Did you save up a ton of cash? Not much at all and take the plunge? Somewhere in the middle? Would be great to know the type of business as well.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10660307

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

Google's Mobile Update Doesn't Mean Be “Mobile-Friendly” Just Because

InfinityX0 — Tue, 31 Mar 2015 14:09:13 +0000

Article URL: http://www.siegemedia.com/googles-mobile-update

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9296247

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by InfinityX0 in "Make Money Online: Documenting 10 Years of Failure"

InfinityX0 — Tue, 24 Mar 2015 19:42:36 +0000

The sad part is he is making an effort here to rank for "Make Money Online", so he can again make money online. Not sure how confident he is in actually doing that, but seems like a somewhat recursive cycle..

750 Popular Subreddits, Categorized by Industry and Submission Type

InfinityX0 — Mon, 27 Oct 2014 18:01:10 +0000

Article URL: http://www.siegemedia.com/popular-subreddits-by-industry

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8517060

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Google Trends: Microsoft vs. Banana

InfinityX0 — Wed, 15 Oct 2014 17:20:04 +0000

Article URL: http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=Microsoft%2C%20Banana&cmpt=q

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8460017

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by InfinityX0 in "The SEO Dominance of RetailMeNot"

InfinityX0 — Sat, 05 Apr 2014 21:23:52 +0000

I don't buy the "don't have all your eggs in one basket" mantra here. I get that idea if you rely on SEO and you have risky tactics, but in RetailMeNot's case, they have the best user experience and also, up to date coupons and for that reason are the best result most of the time in the vertical.

If this was a publicly traded company that bought links and had a site with a shoddy user experience, I'd get the argument that there's significant risk.

In the history of Google there are very few, if any case studies of sites that A) did the right thing B) were the best result that ended up losing significant traffic. Most of it is "yeah, we were doing this wrong, but it's still not fair..". In Rap Genius' case, they clearly did something wrong.

The only exception to this rule is if Google moves in on the vertical and steals traffic, which is possible with coupons - but there's a significant difference between completely destroying a vertical and impeding on it somewhat. Google has moved in on the airline tickets vertical but the businesses there are still doing just fine (Expedia, Priceline), as shown by their considerable growth in the last year+. It seems likely that if Google moved in on this vertical, it would be a similar impact.

In this article, there's little to describe what RetailMeNot does wrong. Yes, they are somewhat of a parasite, but in many ways they do these businesses a service by lowering purchase friction by creating an elegant experience for users. If their UX was substandard, it's possible customers would get lost and never complete their purchase - this happens time and time again, which is why CRO professionals can get hundreds of thousands of dollars to optimize a conversion funnel. In many ways, RetailMeNot is a piece of that elegant conversion funnel, so they are rewarded as an extremely profitable affiliate for that reason.

Disclaimer: I haven't taken the time to evaluate their link profile so there's a possibility that they are doing something risky there, but from an on-page perspective, they are the best result.