10,000+ users in 24 hours & YC funding a few days later: lessons learnt
blog.rapportive.com
10,000+ users in 24 hours & YC funding a few days later: lessons learnt
1–10 of 92 posts
Re: 10,000+ users in 24 hours & YC funding a few days later: lessons learnt
#2Congrats on your success! You know you have a good product when people want it before it's even officially public.
Re: 10,000+ users in 24 hours & YC funding a few days later: lessons learnt
#3Right place, right time, good product, and a little luck. That's awesome to read, hear, and see. I wish them the best and hope all my endeavors bear such tail winds.
Re: 10,000+ users in 24 hours & YC funding a few days later: lessons learnt
#4Great PR for Heroku and Nezumi:
If we were on a cheap VPS, we would have crumbled to pieces like Cobb's limbo in Inception. As we were on Heroku, we could simply increase the number of dynos. I still vividly remember when our traffic hit. I was away from my desk, so I reached for my iPhone and dialed us up to 20 dynos using Nezumi. A few seconds later, we had scaled.
Re: 10,000+ users in 24 hours & YC funding a few days later: lessons learnt
#5I like the idea and love to see it working for a long time, but I totally see GMAIL doing something like this in the future or hopefully buying you out...
Re: 10,000+ users in 24 hours & YC funding a few days later: lessons learnt
#6Great work guys. Ride the rocket as high as you can!
(You're missing an opportunity to funnel people to your site from your blog. You should have a little PR blurb and link at the top of the page)
Also... Additional respect that you took the time to send some love to your service and infrastructure providers.
Re: 10,000+ users in 24 hours & YC funding a few days later: lessons learnt
#7Great write-up. I'd heard of you but couldn't remember what your product was. Have you thought about putting a PR-type blurb at the top of your blog, like "Rapportive shows you everything about your contacts right inside your inbox." with an obvious link to your website?
Re: 10,000+ users in 24 hours & YC funding a few days later: lessons learnt
#8To the founders:
Congrats and thanks for sharing your reflections with us.
Is there a Rapportive API in the works?
I would love to integrate Rapportive into some apps I'm currently working on instead of plugging into the Gmail sidebar.
Re: 10,000+ users in 24 hours & YC funding a few days later: lessons learnt
#9Great PR for Heroku and Nezumi: If we were on a cheap VPS, we would have crumbled to pieces like Cobb's limbo in Inception. As we were on Heroku, we could simply increase the number of dynos. I still vividly remember when our traffic hit. I was away from my desk, so I reached for my iPhone and dialed us up to 20 dynos using Nezumi. A few seconds later, we had scaled.
Agreed, wasnt aware of Nezumi before this read.
Well done to all involved.
Re: 10,000+ users in 24 hours & YC funding a few days later: lessons learnt
#10I wonder how are they going to make money off this.