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Octopart very well received after its first time on the Reddit frontpage

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Re: Octopart very well received after its first time on the Reddit frontpage

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Post by aswanson »

kyro wrote: post #4

I'm not really in Octopart's demographic so I can't attest to its usefulness, but the comments on Reddit seem incredibly positive. You must be doing something right. Congrats on the continued praise and positive feedback you guys seem to be getting.

Yeah, been trying to push them on the oldheads at work. It's so much better than Digikey or Mouser. They should promote it in the engineering mags (EDN,etc) or get Bob Pease or someone like that to write about them. Get the word out.

Re: Octopart very well received after its first time on the Reddit frontpage

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Post by pmorici »

andres wrote: post #8

The entire thing is pretty funny - we never thought an electronic parts search engine would get on the front page of reddit. Here are the reddit stats: 4056 unique ips, ~10000 queries The reddit post also got us traffic from popurls.com (157), wired.com (37), and some random traffic from stumbleupon. I have a new appreciation for reddit comments. Redditors are extremely intelligent people expressing well thought out…

Sounds like you could also start a nice side business selling clean pants to the visitors from reddit. But who can blame them Octopart is awesome.

Re: Octopart very well received after its first time on the Reddit frontpage

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Post by axod »

andres wrote: post #8

The entire thing is pretty funny - we never thought an electronic parts search engine would get on the front page of reddit. Here are the reddit stats: 4056 unique ips, ~10000 queries The reddit post also got us traffic from popurls.com (157), wired.com (37), and some random traffic from stumbleupon. I have a new appreciation for reddit comments. Redditors are extremely intelligent people expressing well thought out…

Is VC funding the plan then? I would think this was a great example of a business that just becomes profitable... Presumably you get commission for each purchase you refer? Or is it not setup that way?

Re: Octopart very well received after its first time on the Reddit frontpage

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Post by llimllib »

Prrometheus wrote: post #18

Well, there is no reddit front page anymore, right? There is only your front page, which depends on which subreddits you have on.

I think the "front page" is the one shown to non-logged-in users, since they probably make up the majority (?)
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