How We Went From 1M To 100M Users In 6 Months

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Post by valceder » Mon, Jul 16, 2012, 4:40 PM UTC

How We Went From 1M To 100M Users In 6 Months
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Re: How We Went From 1M To 100M Users In 6 Months

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Post by bconway » Mon, Jul 16, 2012, 5:00 PM UTC

Isn't it disingenuous to say you have 100M users? That's like Apple saying they have 25 billion iPhone (SDK) users because people have downloaded that many apps. (Note: world population still ~7 billion.)

Re: How We Went From 1M To 100M Users In 6 Months

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Post by benjlang » Mon, Jul 16, 2012, 5:03 PM UTC

Awesome story, going to try out your platform.

Re: How We Went From 1M To 100M Users In 6 Months

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Post by amirf » Mon, Jul 16, 2012, 5:08 PM UTC

Developers always faced the annoying decision of choosing a certain browser and losing a huge chunk of other browser-users, or maintaining several branches of code that is supposed to do the same thing. Well done & Congrats!

Re: How We Went From 1M To 100M Users In 6 Months

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Post by adventureful » Mon, Jul 16, 2012, 5:09 PM UTC

bconway wrote: post #2

Isn't it disingenuous to say you have 100M users? That's like Apple saying they have 25 billion iPhone (SDK) users because people have downloaded that many apps. (Note: world population still ~7 billion.)

Extremely disingenuous. In fact it's a lot closer to flat out lying. The extension creators have 100 million users, not them.

They have 7,000 users (developers). They're basically taking credit for all of the work done on all of the extensions and claiming all of the users accordingly

Re: How We Went From 1M To 100M Users In 6 Months

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Jul 16, 2012, 5:15 PM UTC

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Re: How We Went From 1M To 100M Users In 6 Months

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Post by xSwag » Mon, Jul 16, 2012, 5:15 PM UTC

Oh wow that is really hilarious. The majority of application downloads from your network are worms, specifically the lilyjade worm (browser extension), which, once installed, spams peoples facebook to exploit pages where the extension is again installed and used for click-fraud.

Funny how it takes your team over two months for application takedowns. You're more than aware that a vast majority of you're users are from lilyjade variants. Now you're taking credit for malware downloads. Those aren't 100M users, they're 100M downloads. Stop hyping yourself up.

Further reading if anybody is interested:

[1]http://krebsonsecurity.com/2012/05/facebook-takes-aim-at-cro... [2]http://www.exposedbotnets.com/2012/05/facebook-lily-systemma...

Re: How We Went From 1M To 100M Users In 6 Months

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Post by CubicleNinjas » Mon, Jul 16, 2012, 5:23 PM UTC

Very cool idea. Excited about the possibilities here!

Wish there was more meat to this post though...nothing but the wireframe of what you did to get there.

Re: How We Went From 1M To 100M Users In 6 Months

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Post by valceder » Mon, Jul 16, 2012, 5:29 PM UTC

amirf wrote: post #4

Developers always faced the annoying decision of choosing a certain browser and losing a huge chunk of other browser-users, or maintaining several branches of code that is supposed to do the same thing. Well done & Congrats!

Thanks amrif, that's exactly what our aim is, to let developers get the most out of their extensions on ever browser.

Re: How We Went From 1M To 100M Users In 6 Months

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Post by focuser » Mon, Jul 16, 2012, 5:32 PM UTC

Growing from 0 to 1M users is probably harder than from 1M to 100M.