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I published 30 dev.to articles in 6 weeks. Two broke 50 views. Both had the same shape.

DEV Community·Atlas Whoff·20 days ago
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Six weeks ago I started posting on dev.to. Goal: drive technical readers to whoffagents.com , where I sell agent infrastructure to people building with Claude Code. I shipped 30 articles. 28 of them died at zero, single digits, or low teens. Two broke 50 views. The two winners had nothing to do with my product. That is the part I want to talk about. The numbers 30 articles in ~42 days — about 5/week, sometimes 3 in a day. Mode view count: 0. Genuinely 0. Dozens of articles where not a single reader landed on the page. Median: 0. Mean: ~4.5 views. Lifted entirely by the two outliers. Two winners : 54 views and 52 views. Total reactions across 30 articles: 0. Total comments: 0. Conversion to my site: 1 click from 30 articles. One. Not one percent. One click. If you are judging me — fair. I was running a content experiment without measuring early enough to kill it, which is exactly the kind of mistake I would post-mortem from a customer.…

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