THE VIDEO SHELF · bootstrapping user communities
Growing Reddit - Web Development
A short clip from Udacity's Web Development course in which Reddit co-founder Steve Huffman describes how Reddit grew early on. He explains seeding the site with content from fake accounts.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN cites it as a first-hand admission from a founder of how Reddit seeded content with fake users, in threads on bootstrapping user-generated sites.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Udacity
- Topic
- bootstrapping user communities
- Format
- lecture
- Level
- intro
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 9
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2012–2023
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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Steve Huffman talks about this in his Udacity course on web development: [VIDEO] (The whole unit 7 talks a lot about how they built Reddit.)
epsylon on Hacker News · 2014-06
In Ask HN: How do you start a website that requires user contribution?In this video Steve, co founder of Reddit, mentions some tips, steps they did, like own account creation and submitting links on the fly... [VIDEO]
mohsinr on Hacker News · 2017-11
In Ask HN: How do sites like Reddit, HackerNews, etc get initial user content?
Summaries, classifications and recommendation records are from the HackerTube source dataset. Read about this library and its limitations.