Sincere question from someone who is working on his first projects now: why did you publish without infrastructure enough to support even the relatively meager "HN effect" (see also: Digg effect, Reddit effect)? Not criticizing you for your decision whatsoever, just trying to see the thought process from someone who is further along than me.
It's one of the constraints of the competition unfortunately. They give us a "stock" Linode box that we can't upgrade (didn't know this ahead of time or I would've spent time on caching etc.).
