Channel guide
Show HN is day one. The graph is the next ninety.
Founders over-index on launch, then return to random posting. A Demand Graph is the part that keeps scanning after the upvotes stop.
Spike vs compounding
Spikes are useful for list-building emotion; compounding is for pipeline math. You want both, but only one of them is automatic.
Same ICP, different time
A launch attracts browsers; a thread three weeks later from someone in pain may convert higher — the graph helps you not miss those because you are shipping code.
Signal-to-Page for launch and after
A hot thread gets a page fast, whether it is a Show HN or a long Ask HN in your category — same system.
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