I guess that even generating a small amount of revenue could give you more confidence. Once the issue of survival is addressed, you would have more capacity to explore other possibilities.

Yes, that's exactly what I am thinking.

As for driving traffic to Stacker News, I think you would also need tools to help you evaluate its effectiveness. If you could accurately track how many people click on a Stacker News territory link from different pages each day, you could experiment with different approaches and optimize the results.

Yes, I need a way to track traffic more accurately without compromising user privacy.

Thanks a bunch for your input. It will help guide me as I figure out my next steps.