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CSS Pivot - From idea to 20k hits in 7 days

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Re: CSS Pivot - From idea to 20k hits in 7 days

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Man, well done. Very well done. Just a quick suggestion: I think having "Discover Pivots" on a separate Reddit- or HN-style ranking page might be better than having a bunch of popup windows.

+1 on that! Another suggestion: Is it possible to make private posts?

Re: CSS Pivot - From idea to 20k hits in 7 days

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post #4
post #2

Man, well done. Very well done. Just a quick suggestion: I think having "Discover Pivots" on a separate Reddit- or HN-style ranking page might be better than having a bunch of popup windows.

+1 on that! Another suggestion: Is it possible to make private posts?

Great idea -- will add that today or tomorrow!

Re: CSS Pivot - From idea to 20k hits in 7 days

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post #2

Man, well done. Very well done. Just a quick suggestion: I think having "Discover Pivots" on a separate Reddit- or HN-style ranking page might be better than having a bunch of popup windows.

Thank you! Yeah I know, the UI for discovering pivots is very early -- there is just so much to do and we were busy refining the pivot view first. We are definitely thinking about a concept for the homepage, possibly with snapshots of how the pivot looks. Will come next week!

Re: CSS Pivot - From idea to 20k hits in 7 days

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post #7

what did you do to in terms of marketing to get to 20k users? I think the site is good.

The only marketing so far was to post it to HN and Forrst, and at a usually bad time too (Saturday evening). But people upvoted it a lot and it was #1 almost all Sunday: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2373785

Re: CSS Pivot - From idea to 20k hits in 7 days

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I'm liking the potential of these ideas:

"extending the use-szenarious (eg inviting friends to share pivots for your own website), showing a tree of pivots with their forks and ancestors"

It would be really useful to see a history of versions and easily toggle between them.

Re: CSS Pivot - From idea to 20k hits in 7 days

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Is there a way to specify the "license" for the pivot code? This might be handy--sites could take free improvements if they want--if a devoted user wanted to improve a site they dearly loved.

Additionally, you could let people sell pivots right on the site. I'm sure you're thinking of these things, though.

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