Did anything come from the traffic? As in customers or opportunities?

Yes, we got 187 self-serve users (all on the free plan). And are in talks with an enterprise now.

Interesting reply to A16Z's blog from last year.

There was a good exhibition a few years ago at the naval museum in Greenwich. They also made use of the diaries. Your website has proven a great follow up, thank you.

Might be interesting too even if not a documentary: https://www.penguin.co.uk/authors/285264/dipo-faloyin - I just read this, and very interesting regarding current culture (author is of Nigerian heritage)

I don't see that this is necessarily a critique of accelerators, seems to focus mostly in a rather ephemeral way on ODX.

That is only mentioned in the second article.

Rather the vagueness reflects an interest in exploring solutions. That's normally what blogs / essays are like aren't they?

Perhaps exploring solutions can yield better outcomes if exploring with the ones that will benefit from those solutions. For example, if you are trying to develop agriculture solutions for Africa, a blog post promoted on HN and Angel is unlikely to be read by a subsistence farmer in Africa.

There is a cottage industry of people claiming to do projects to help Africa. With marketing via blog posts geared towards those with access to capital, these projects can be funded. And since it is about Africa, there is less scrutiny about how effective it really is. Superficial facile accolades along with wining and dining at global events can further obfuscate this reality.

How does this compare to the Oxford/AZ vaccine?

Isn't there a whole community dedicated to this: indiehackers.com

IndieHackers was inspired by posts on HN just like this, got a lot of traction marketing it here, and was acquired by a YC startup too; basically, IndieHackers is an unofficial YC spin-off.

+1 for spotting a problem. One comment I would have is that for our sales team it is particularly useful if it is mobile or at least mobile friendly.

We have a mobile app on our roadmap.

26% of our daily users are on mobile, but we're not yet happy about how it works on mobile browsers. We should have an update next week that focuses on making it more mobile friendly.

And their closest trading neighbor Benin.