I wrote a blog 3 days ago sharing my experience building RAG in production. The post went viral on Hacker News and remained on the front page for 26 hours.
I want to share what it was like on the receiving end, and how we accidentally went viral.
Metrics
Let's start with the more exciting part.
- Website traffic: not measured ¹
- GitHub stars: 838
- New customers: 187 (self-serve)
- Demo requests: 8
The Story
On Monday, I spent a couple of hours writing up our experience building RAG in production for r/RAG. I hit publish and... nothing. No upvotes. Then I realized Reddit was down.
I was quite bummed. I took the Reddit content, put it in a blog post, and submitted it to Hacker News with zero expectations.
I wrapped up a customer demo call, habitually opened HN. There it was! #6, and shortly after #2 on the front page.
Thanks to AWS for the outage, and thank you to everyone who supported us on HN.
¹ Didn't have analytics set up on the blog, received 1,298 visitors to agentset.ai