Hey, my comment got used in his slides when he shows an example on hacker news.
Awesome!
The email template used to get 60k users in 60 hours
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Re: The email template used to get 60k users in 60 hours
#12at that rate, (1000 users per hour) it would take 114 years to get to one billion users.
"Exponential"
Re: The email template used to get 60k users in 60 hours
#13I think instead of bluffing him,if he send email something like this , it will bring more user .
Dear xyz, I really like you tweets (or whatever) and genuinely wanted to offer recent feature "who googled you" (here mention your powerful feature) . We think it is only for you.
Re: The email template used to get 60k users in 60 hours
#14Proof read before you send something like that out: "Particularly because I think a two articles you wrote a few years ago did an amazing job summarizing the industry"
good call, fixed.
Re: The email template used to get 60k users in 60 hours
#15Annoyingly misleading link bait title. The mail was sent to "journalists", not users. It is nothing new, just the usual social engineering basics that have been covered a gazillion times like sugar coating the recipient's ego, mentioning pseudo-personal things about yourself, etc. Annoyance warning about visiting that site, it loads and loads and loads some images to no end. Every second or so the mouse pointer chang…
I wrote that headline and actually didn't realize people might think it was an email template for emails to users specifically. Maybe accidental linkbait, but not intended.
Also which images are being loaded to no end? I've never experienced that but it sounds like something I should definitely fix..
Re: The email template used to get 60k users in 60 hours
#16Annoyingly misleading link bait title. The mail was sent to "journalists", not users. It is nothing new, just the usual social engineering basics that have been covered a gazillion times like sugar coating the recipient's ego, mentioning pseudo-personal things about yourself, etc. Annoyance warning about visiting that site, it loads and loads and loads some images to no end. Every second or so the mouse pointer chang…
I wrote that headline and actually didn't realize people might think it was an email template for emails to users specifically. Maybe accidental linkbait, but not intended. Also which images are being loaded to no end? I've never experienced that but it sounds like something I should definitely fix..
I guess it is the slideshare stuff, not sure.
Re: The email template used to get 60k users in 60 hours
#17Your sidebar is going crazy on me. I see like ten php warnings and one fatal error, all with php paths and a stack trace. You shouldn't have those settings on in a production server.
On the other hand, I really enjoyed the post and the slides.