I launched on 3 platforms with 0 followers. My 7-year-old article beat all of them.

Three days ago I launched a major update to RepoSweeper — a tool for bulk managing GitHub repos (delete, archive, change visibility, AI commit summaries, etc.). Here's everything I did to promote it: Published a new Medium article Posted on our LinkedIn company page (0 followers) Posted here on dev.to (0 followers — hi 👋) Updated a 2018 article about the original version of the app, adding a paragraph pointing to the new one Here's what actually happened to traffic (Cloudflare, unique visitors): Date Unique Visitors Feb 8–17 avg ~220/day Feb 18 451 Feb 19 589 Feb 20 336 Feb 21 327 Nearly 3x baseline on day 2. Signups went from ~1/day to 3–4/day. So what drove it? Not LinkedIn. Not dev.to. Not the new Medium article — it has 20 reads. It was a 2018 article : " The Easiest Way To Delete Multiple GitHub Repositories At Once " — a simple how-to I wrote right after bootcamp when I first built the app. It has 25K reads accumulated over 7 years, mostly from Google. Before I updated it: ~2 rea