Bahar

So what does work as a demand test now? That is the actual question behind this.

Worth noting the exception, because there is one: a trending item is occasionally the first sighting of a term. Not the story, the word. If a tool or a format gets named this week, that word will be searched for years and nobody has written the page yet.

So the feed is worthless as a topic list and occasionally useful as a vocabulary list.

Counterpoint on what launch day is for. I never launched anywhere and I am fine, but the people I know who did got one thing out of it that is real: a dated, public artefact that exists forever and ranks for their product name.

Not traffic, not feedback. A permanent page. Judged on that it is cheap and worth doing once.