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Re: How to get your first 100k active users

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Post by jcadam »

GuiA wrote: post #148
jcadam wrote: post #144

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Pfft, 30k? I'd love to have 30k leads. I have, like 10 people on my "coming soon" mailing list. And I personally know 5 of them :D I have no flippin' idea how the other 5 found my landing page. I haven't been running ads or anything. I was going to wait till I actually launched (hopefully in a few weeks). My thought process was the same. Pay for Adwords, et al., to drive people to a page that basically says "Sorry, w…

Our lead designer had 20k+ twitter followers, so that was the core of it.

Ooh, I have 7. Perhaps my aversion to social media has consequences.

Re: How to get your first 100k active users

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Post by drharby »

dhimes wrote: post #139
jcun4128 wrote: post #114

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I get the idea of building your users/interest before it event exists but I personally am not 100% on board with that idea especially if the product doesn't exist yet. And I know who am I, nobody. But as a person who hears about some service like "We'll help you get hired by these new methods of looking over resumes" great. sign me up. I sign up "Sorry we're in private beta at this time." like what? Why did I Go thro…

Yes, it does seem unethical. IIRC these techniques were discussed at length in HN in the 'early days' of the tech startup 'boom' (or at least the early days of HN).

Whats unethical?

I understand its not exactly fun to be at the receiving end of that treatment but i fail to see what values it is really violating

Re: How to get your first 100k active users

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Post by murukesh_s »

saagarjha wrote: post #93
murukesh_s wrote: post #84

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Yea if you play around you can really make an app look like native. Even in desktop it's difficult to figure out web apps wrapped under electron when they are done right..

> Even in desktop it's difficult to figure out web apps wrapped under electron when they are done right.. Name one.

Sorry, didn't see the reply. You want a web app as close to native? Look no further - https://www.nylas.com/download, source https://github.com/nylas/nylas-mail.

Re: How to get your first 100k active users

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Post by murukesh_s »

saagarjha wrote: post #95
ch4s3 wrote: post #94

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VSCode is close if you squint or don't know where to look for the evidence of Electron.

Its UI paradigm looks out of place on macOS–it very much looks like a website in an app wrapper.

"Its UI paradigm looks out of place on macOS "- Which part?

Re: How to get your first 100k active users

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Post by dhimes »

drharby wrote: post #152
dhimes wrote: post #139

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, it does seem unethical. IIRC these techniques were discussed at length in HN in the 'early days' of the tech startup 'boom' (or at least the early days of HN).

Whats unethical? I understand its not exactly fun to be at the receiving end of that treatment but i fail to see what values it is really violating

When I click on a button that says effectively "Purchase" or "Buy Now" and I instead get a page that says "Sign up to stay informed" the page has lied to me.

I fully understand that the design pattern solves a difficult problem that we all have: how to know if someone would really be willing to buy your product. Because if you ask, many people will say they would buy it, but when it comes time to pull out their credit card they don't do it.

But it's still tricking the customer into doing something he or she wouldn't ordinarily do if they had known what the button really did.

Re: How to get your first 100k active users

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Post by saagarjha »

murukesh_s wrote: post #153
saagarjha wrote: post #93

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> Even in desktop it's difficult to figure out web apps wrapped under electron when they are done right.. Name one.

Sorry, didn't see the reply. You want a web app as close to native? Look no further - https://www.nylas.com/download , source https://github.com/nylas/nylas-mail .

It's close, but not quite there. I don't see vibrancy or features from standard text controls.

Re: How to get your first 100k active users

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Post by CASHforGOLD »

GuiA wrote: post #148
jcadam wrote: post #144

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Pfft, 30k? I'd love to have 30k leads. I have, like 10 people on my "coming soon" mailing list. And I personally know 5 of them :D I have no flippin' idea how the other 5 found my landing page. I haven't been running ads or anything. I was going to wait till I actually launched (hopefully in a few weeks). My thought process was the same. Pay for Adwords, et al., to drive people to a page that basically says "Sorry, w…

Our lead designer had 20k+ twitter followers, so that was the core of it.

He sounds soo important!

Re: How to get your first 100k active users

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Post by boyce »

jesse_ wrote: post #138
boyce wrote: post #132

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What's your other favourite recent startup? Sounds like you have something specific in mind. Just curious

A company in Chicago called Tock. It's a ticketing and reservation/table management service for restaurants started by one of the founders of Alinea and Next.

Ooh that is right up my street, thanks

Re: How to get your first 100k active users

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Post by aagha »

jonas21 wrote: post #41
danielskogly wrote: post #23

This evening we got our 171st user for our wishlist-service. When we launched it 1 year ago we tried to get it out on different channels like Reddit and HN without much success, while we _did_ see success in just talking about it to friends and family, and had just over 100 users in January this year. Since then, we've done close to zero marketing, and it's been amazing to see new signups, wishlists and items being c…

In case anyone is wondering (like I was), I think this is the site: https://wishy.gift

I like the idea and could see myself using it, but I don't use Facebook.
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