How We Unexpectedly Got 60K Users in 60 Hours (2012)
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How We Unexpectedly Got 60K Users in 60 Hours (2012)
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Re: How We Unexpectedly Got 60K Users in 60 Hours (2012)
#2Hm, it sounds like they just got lucky, so i'm not sure what the lesson is here. A sample size of 1 is useless for learning what works and what not. I would be far more impressed if they would get similar results repeatably after each promoting action.
Re: How We Unexpectedly Got 60K Users in 60 Hours (2012)
#3So browsing nginx logs for my vanity domain and running whois queries for the IPs at 3am is not nearly as weird as I thought.
Re: How We Unexpectedly Got 60K Users in 60 Hours (2012)
#4The 60k users 60 hours is just the end result, but the slideshow is not about quick results as I expected : it's about iterating around different things to see what sticks until you find something that works.
"Presenting one feature at a time" is a quite useful thing because it allows you to talk about yourself regularly with a slightly different angle and it create news all the time.
Re: How We Unexpectedly Got 60K Users in 60 Hours (2012)
#5Hm, it sounds like they just got lucky, so i'm not sure what the lesson is here. A sample size of 1 is useless for learning what works and what not. I would be far more impressed if they would get similar results repeatably after each promoting action.
I was going to say the same.
How we got 60k users in 60 hours: make something useful that people really want.
Re: How We Unexpectedly Got 60K Users in 60 Hours (2012)
#6Hm, it sounds like they just got lucky, so i'm not sure what the lesson is here. A sample size of 1 is useless for learning what works and what not. I would be far more impressed if they would get similar results repeatably after each promoting action.
I was going to say the same. How we got 60k users in 60 hours: make something useful that people really want.
> How we got 60k users in 60 hours: make something useful that people really want.
And tell them about it in a way that they understand
Re: How We Unexpectedly Got 60K Users in 60 Hours (2012)
#7Numbers of registrations is a vanity metric.
How many used the core product?
How many retained?
How many converted to paying?
How many told their friends?
Re: How We Unexpectedly Got 60K Users in 60 Hours (2012)
#8So browsing nginx logs for my vanity domain and running whois queries for the IPs at 3am is not nearly as weird as I thought.
On that note, how exactly are they reaching conclusions on where Googlers who are Googling you actually work? (i.e. their actual company name, not just the physical location their IP address maps to).
Re: How We Unexpectedly Got 60K Users in 60 Hours (2012)
#9I didn't learn anything reading those slides
Re: How We Unexpectedly Got 60K Users in 60 Hours (2012)
#10The real question is how many sign-ups will occur from being on the front page of HN?