Show HN: Our startup got featured on HN and BetaList: Statistics, comparison.

Bar charts should always start at the x-axis (where the value is 0) because otherwise it warps how large the difference is to a casual reader.

Just wanted to add a second set of 'data points' to this as well - we had a very similar situation, but for us the traffic we got from Betali.st was higher quality - while we had significantly less overall referrals from BetaList than from HN (~1300 vs ~500), the users coming from BetaList were much more apt to create an account, hang around and give us feedback.<p><a href="https://www.trestleapp.com/blog/being-featured-on-beta-list" rel="nofollow">https://www.trestleapp.com/blog/being-featured-on-beta-list</a><p>So I would highly recommend BetaList if you are just getting rolling.

Here's another comparison in case people are interested: <a href="http://blog.capography.com/comparing-traffic-from-betalist-with-traffic" rel="nofollow">http://blog.capography.com/comparing-traffic-from-betalist-w...</a><p>I should point out the comparison isn't totally fair as in this instance HN traffic is directed to specific blog posts, while the Beta List post linked to the homepage.<p>Disclosure: I'm the founder of Beta List (Marc). The post was written by one of the startups (Capography) featured on our site.

Betali.st is awesome, we used most of the Free Startup beta listing for Dropdock ( Startupli.st, betapunch ,etc ) and betali.st was definetly the best!<p>Here's the Goal completion for the Week we got featured on those website.<p><a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/149780/Overview%20-%20Google%20Analytics.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://dl.dropbox.com/u/149780/Overview%20-%20Google%20Analy...</a><p>Also, I chatted a little bit with Marc who run the site and he's a great guy. ;)

Great analysis. Sustainability is pretty reasonable. There are tons of high quality posts on HN; if you don't gain points fast enough, you disappear from the first page too fast. BetaList has twitter integration which has a much more sustainable effect. What puzzles me is the lower willingness of visitors from HN to provide feedback.

To get a bit meta, I'm curious what the HN conversion rate is for blog posts about previous HN conversion rates.

Do you have already any data on retention?