B
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28,000
28,000 -- show hn post count for Hacker News (2025)
There were over 28,000 Show HN posts submitted to Hacker News in 2025.
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Value
28,000
Unit
Count
Data Vintage
2025
Entity
Evidence Quality
B
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Score breakdown
Extraction
75
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
Daniel King
Primary
Tier B
https://founden.ai/articles/how-to-get-people-to-talk-about-your-product ↗
Source Article
How to Get People Talking About Your Product | Articles | Founden
The zero-capital playbook for manufacturing word of mouth in 2026, built from real founder cases (including the ones that flopped).
Fewer than 1% of companies have an actual word-of-mouth strategy, even though word of mouth is directly responsible for roughly 19% of purchases and influences as much …
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Daniel King
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Methodology
Daniel King analysis; median Show HN score was 2 points
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Hacker News: 28,000 show hn post count. Source: Daniel King (2025). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/show-hn-posts-2025
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