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Re: Zero to a Million Users in 15 Days

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post #55

Hi All, Ted from Kik. Just wanted to jump in and answer a few questions: On October 21, 2010 we launched a completely new service. The only thing that was the same between new Kik and old Kik was the name and the app store accounts. Users from the old system (about 55K active in the last week before the hard switch over) were notified that the new service was available and that the old one would soon be shut down. Ab…

I have a quick suggestion for blog posts like this: don't assume that readers have any idea what it is you do. Take the opportunity in the first paragraph to describe what your product is and why people use it. That way, people coming to your post who aren't already users will be oriented immediately. They will, I suspect, also be more likely to use your product.

oh I couldn't agree with this more

landing on blog posts where the template/sidebar etc. give you no idea about the service or even link to signup/homepage is so annoying yet so easy to fix

I hate having to edit off the end of the URL and going to just the domain to find out what the product is about

Re: Zero to a Million Users in 15 Days

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post #47

Hi All, Ted from Kik. Just wanted to jump in and answer a few questions: On October 21, 2010 we launched a completely new service. The only thing that was the same between new Kik and old Kik was the name and the app store accounts. Users from the old system (about 55K active in the last week before the hard switch over) were notified that the new service was available and that the old one would soon be shut down. Ab…

Why did you decide not to migrate the existing users?

That's where the real story is.

A small startup decided it couldn't scale what the users were offered in an earlier version so the natural decision was to pull the plug.

Re: Zero to a Million Users in 15 Days

#73
On the App Store page Kik notes:

"This is just the start. The next step is adding free (legal) music sharing, and it will be sweet. Really sweet."

Curious. I guess they aren't happy with sticking to messaging and will keep adding social features.

Re: Zero to a Million Users in 15 Days

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because it is essentially Blackberry Messenger for all smartphones. Many people only use Blackberry because of the speed and D/R status of BBM regardless of how they feel about the device.

I'm not familiar with BBM , but it appears Kik works for Iphone, Android and Blackberry. The only significance I can see between using something like IM client, available on all these clients, is letting you know if message was read or not. Is there anything else, significant about BBM ?

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Re: Zero to a Million Users in 15 Days

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My friends are pimping this on facebook hardcore right now. Non-tech people, especially. Strong work, ladies and gentlemen. I call it "crackberry for the iPhone."

How does this compare to whatsapp messenger? My wife spends half her life on it and it seems pretty identical.

Re: Zero to a Million Users in 15 Days

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post #76

My friends are pimping this on facebook hardcore right now. Non-tech people, especially. Strong work, ladies and gentlemen. I call it "crackberry for the iPhone."

How does this compare to whatsapp messenger? My wife spends half her life on it and it seems pretty identical.

Hmm, not sure. I hadn't heard of whatsapp before your comment.
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