Medium update: 2 weeks in, 7 articles published.
Real numbers:
→ 144 total views
→ 7 articles live
→ 1 clear winner: 29 views, 41 reads (more reads than views, someone is sharing it directly)
→ 2 articles with 25 views and 0 reads, title works, intro doesn't hold
→ Newest article (8 views, 0 reads), too early to judge, published 3 days ago
Biggest lesson from the data so far:
Titles with a specific result + time frame consistently outperform vague ones.
"How to Launch Your First Gumroad Product in 7 Days", best performer by far.
"Creating a Digital Product Is Not the Hard Part", 9 views, almost no reads.
The pattern is clear: promise a concrete outcome in the title, or nobody clicks. And if they do click, your first 3 sentences determine whether they stay.
Fixed two underperforming intros this week based on that. Will share the before/after if anyone's interested.
Anyone else deep in the Medium data rabbit hole? What's your read ratio looking like?