How Not to Launch on Hacker News

One of my blog posts was picked up on Hacker News , and overnight my humble postcard vending machine on the internet got a whole lot more traffic than I expected. And just when everything was set to take off, the machine got jammed, right at my big moment. Here&rsquo;s a post-mortem of what went down and how I fixed it while still managing to be there for my kid’s birthday.