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10,000+ users in 24 hours & YC funding a few days later: lessons learnt

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Re: 10,000+ users in 24 hours & YC funding a few days later: lessons learnt

#11

Post by rahulvohra »

fjabre wrote: post #8

To the founders: Congrats and thanks for sharing your reflections with us. Is there a Rapportive API in the works? I would love to integrate Rapportive into some apps I'm currently working on instead of plugging into the Gmail sidebar.

Hey Fred, thanks for your kind words.

Yes, there is a Rapportive API. It doesn't allow for Rapportive to go inside other applications, but it does allow folks to embed their own applications inside Rapportive. Would that be useful at all to you?

For example, MailChimp recently released an integration which allows Rapportive users to see how the people who email them interact with their email newsletters. Checkout http://www.mailchimp.com/blog/mailchimp-in-your-gmail-with-r... and this funky video: http://blip.tv/file/3859911

There are more of these Rapportive applications, or Raplets, at http://raplets.com

You can find the documentation at: http://groups.google.com/group/raplet-dev http://groups.google.com/group/raplet-announce

Re: 10,000+ users in 24 hours & YC funding a few days later: lessons learnt

#14

Post by rahulvohra »

Sukotto wrote: post #6

Great work guys. Ride the rocket as high as you can! (You're missing an opportunity to funnel people to your site from your blog. You should have a little PR blurb and link at the top of the page) Also... Additional respect that you took the time to send some love to your service and infrastructure providers.

Thanks :) You're absolutely right, we need to customise the posterous theme a tad. Edit: added blurb, not yet a link.

Re: 10,000+ users in 24 hours & YC funding a few days later: lessons learnt

#15

Post by rahulvohra »

grep wrote: post #10

I wonder how are they going to make money off this.

We have plans which we're going to test in the coming months. As much as we can say right now is that it will be freemium: we intend to keep the core service you see today free, and to charge for premium features.

Re: 10,000+ users in 24 hours & YC funding a few days later: lessons learnt

#16

Post by rahulvohra »

_ouxp wrote: post #7

Great write-up. I'd heard of you but couldn't remember what your product was. Have you thought about putting a PR-type blurb at the top of your blog, like "Rapportive shows you everything about your contacts right inside your inbox." with an obvious link to your website?

Good point. Added the blurb to the blog, but couldn't find a quick way of adding a link. That might require theme customisation. (Or am I wrong?)

Re: 10,000+ users in 24 hours & YC funding a few days later: lessons learnt

#17

Post by rahulvohra »

nickpp wrote: post #12

That's not a startup, it's a Gmail feature. Amazes me what gets financing nowadays...

It may look like that today, but when you pitch investors you sell them on the team, the market and the vision. You paint a compelling picture of how you get from where you are today to somewhere incredibly exciting.

Re: 10,000+ users in 24 hours & YC funding a few days later: lessons learnt

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rahulvohra wrote: post #11
fjabre wrote: post #8

To the founders: Congrats and thanks for sharing your reflections with us. Is there a Rapportive API in the works? I would love to integrate Rapportive into some apps I'm currently working on instead of plugging into the Gmail sidebar.

Hey Fred, thanks for your kind words. Yes, there is a Rapportive API. It doesn't allow for Rapportive to go inside other applications, but it does allow folks to embed their own applications inside Rapportive. Would that be useful at all to you? For example, MailChimp recently released an integration which allows Rapportive users to see how the people who email them interact with their email newsletters. Checkout htt…

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