Why did you build it? What was your motivation? I tried it, and I have no idea why would I spam my friends with link so they would describe me. I have absolutely no interest in that, and I would feel really stupid sending anyone link like that. Did you actually felt the need to have such a website? Or you just figured people will like it? How did you figure that out? Please, share.
Most people have a strong interest in how others perceive them, including yourself: "I would feel really stupid sending anyone link like that." You're probably part of a culture where publicly asking others what they think of you is frowned on.
Yes, we're part of a mature culture. We do not incessantly need to be digitally liked by others who we don't really know.
I don't know, someone made a comment in reply to me the other day that said "Twitter could be another Digg" and everyone seemed to love it.
I sure do :)
I somewhat like Twitter. I avoided it for a long time but I've come to enjoy and accept it. Facebook, on the other hand, is one of the worst entities in the entire world.
I recently built a Facebook application that approached the same kind of growth. Sites like this typically see eCPM between $0.10 and $0.30 for advertising. So you're looking at around $30/day revenue right now. Consider switching to EC2. This will allow you to easily scale up to a more powerful server if growth continues or down to a less powerful one if traffic tapers off. Depending on how you set things up, a comm…
New Feature Idea if it's not already in the works: threewords.me places (foursquare?). would leverage current users engagement to tag locations with a dead simple description. could keep users coming back, provide utility(value)to businesses, and make you some more money. email me (mw63214@gmail.com) if you want more ideas, although it seems you have your hands full as it is. Good Luck!
Also, I don't know how time-intensive it would be, but it could be helpful to have some sort of drop-down box that initiates when users start typing in the three word spaces. Sort of like a google-instant-type thing. 5 synonyms pop up ranging from strong to weak. So if I started typing "h-o-", it would infer I was typing "hot" and (on the left, or strong side) it would have "blazing" and on the right(or weak side) it would have "warm". Or something of that nature. You get the picture. Might be easier for mobile folks to get the best possible description and faster.
Adsense. With only about 10k hits a day, my bedtime calculator http://sleepyti.me brings in $10-$20/day. At the rate you're getting users, you could probably bring in a significant load of cash. Good luck!
Curious: What kind of traffic sources are you getting? I notice an FB like button, is that the sole source?
Consider adding a revenue stream immediately. Let users pay to see what others have said about friends. Charge 1 facebook credit. Also let users pay to block that access: 10 credits. Also pay to let others ignore the block: 100 credits. Etc... You'll need to redirect to a facebook page to use credits because they aren't available off facebook.com yet. They don't have many good examples of offsite apps using credits,…
I'm not sure all your users are familiar with Facebook credits; I'm not sure you want to set up barriers before you know what you have.
Adsense. With only about 10k hits a day, my bedtime calculator http://sleepyti.me brings in $10-$20/day. At the rate you're getting users, you could probably bring in a significant load of cash. Good luck!
"Sleepyti.me is provided as a free service thanks to support from our ads." I don't know if you read the "Sacked by a Google Algorithm" article from yesterday. http://www.duckworksmagazine.com/11/columns/guest/winter/ind... The comment you make on the results page sounds dangerously close to what got Adsense to boot him.
Thanks for the tip. I saw that article on HN the other day, but the wording is designed to encourage people to leave adblock disabled to see relevant, sleep-related ads. You might be right though, it's always better safe than sorry; I'll look into clarifying the wording there. Wouldn't want to offend my Google overlords!
Adsense. With only about 10k hits a day, my bedtime calculator http://sleepyti.me brings in $10-$20/day. At the rate you're getting users, you could probably bring in a significant load of cash. Good luck!
Curious: What kind of traffic sources are you getting? I notice an FB like button, is that the sole source?
Facebook and Twitter help spread the message to new users, as well as a nice daily referral from StumbleUpon.
A few people have posted my URL to social news sites like Reddit and Digg, but even when those gain traction it's usually just a few thousand and quite short-lived.
Would it be possible to see your Facebook app? I'm curious to see what traits these fast growing apps have in common in person.
Sorry. It got banned from platform for a few reasons including tagging photos that didn't have people in them. (Similar to the cartoons that people upload and tag their friends as characters). In general the biggest trait is that the app is built around sharing. Apps where sharing is a secondary feature generally do much worse in comparison to those where the whole point of the app is to share something. Even success…
That's really interesting. My recent viral app, Profile Banner, also utilizes tagging of photos without people. How long did it take before your app was banned?
220.000 hits in 2 hours is about 220000/3600/2 = 30 hits per second. The server needs to produce pages in about 33 msec. And all that is average; there could be spikes. Hmmm, interesting. And certainly doable. On my site I use memcached and that produces pages in 3 to 4 msec.
In the movie, the figure quoted was 22.000 hits, so 3 pages per second. Which is reasonably serviceable but still high for a new site.