> Nadia Odunayo is the founder and CEO of The StoryGraph, the app that helps you to track your reading and choose which book to read next based on your mood and favorite topics and themes. https://thestorygraph.com/
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Getting to 2M users as a one woman dev team [video]
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Re: Getting to 2M users as a one woman dev team [video]
#42Pretty nice, 1 dev 3 team members in total and 1 million users? Are there any other products with such a small team and a huge userbase? Does this scale and when the business requires more coding and technical debt comes how do they manage it?
It's not a small team, but Valve seems to have a very similar proportion of employees to users. I think they have about 400 employees, and a user base of 140 million. That's roughly 3 employees per million users.
Re: Getting to 2M users as a one woman dev team [video]
#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
Pinboard probably
Pinboard peaked at about 30,000 users: https://x.com/Pinboard/status/1810893626274128048/photo/1
ha! kind of funny to read the comments in this thread and see this at the top of the Pinboard website:
Notice (Dec 13): code cleanup continues; please keep reporting bugs to support@pinboard.in
Re: Getting to 2M users as a one woman dev team [video]
#44> the app that helps you to track your reading and choose which book to read next based on your mood and favorite topics and themes.
I'd like to have that for games and music. Stores are mostly terrible at recomending anything. Steam does better than most but still far from good.
And syncing recommendations with my mood is pretty much non-existent.
Re: Getting to 2M users as a one woman dev team [video]
#45Pretty nice, 1 dev 3 team members in total and 1 million users? Are there any other products with such a small team and a huge userbase? Does this scale and when the business requires more coding and technical debt comes how do they manage it?
I got a voice chat service for Brazil to nearly 500,000 users as a single dev. Of course we co-branded somebody else's application but I made the user database, sign up systems, contests and other web-based parts.
Re: Getting to 2M users as a one woman dev team [video]
#46Pretty nice, 1 dev 3 team members in total and 1 million users? Are there any other products with such a small team and a huge userbase? Does this scale and when the business requires more coding and technical debt comes how do they manage it?
From a long time ago (~2009) but this comment instantly reminded me of the gem which was Plenty Of Fish
https://highscalability.com/plentyoffish-architecture/
"POF has one single employee: the founder and CEO Markus Frind. Makes up to $10 million a year on Google ads working only two hours a day. 30+ Million Hits a Day"
Re: Getting to 2M users as a one woman dev team [video]
#47I always wonder, how do sites like this get their list of books and book metadata? Do publishers have an API? What about Amazon?
Freebase got about 50% of the way to a good book database but Google killed it.
Re: Getting to 2M users as a one woman dev team [video]
#48Pretty nice, 1 dev 3 team members in total and 1 million users? Are there any other products with such a small team and a huge userbase? Does this scale and when the business requires more coding and technical debt comes how do they manage it?
I mean, SQLite is what, 4 developers? And it's by some estimations is one of the top five deployed software modules of any description:
Re: Getting to 2M users as a one woman dev team [video]
#49[stub for offtopicness] [good grief]
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This comment reads like one of those Bluesky "polite disagreers" LLM-generated replies that's designed to farm for engagement: https://boingboing.net/2024/12/05/blueskys-bot-invasion-ai-a...
Re: Getting to 2M users as a one woman dev team [video]
#50I always wonder, how do sites like this get their list of books and book metadata? Do publishers have an API? What about Amazon?
It is so bad!!! I use Nielsen's API, but the data is pretty rough, and you have to spend a lot of time cleaning it. Plus, the archaic industry standards around genre are hard to translate to what readers use - https://www.bisg.org/complete-bisac-subject-headings-list . Ingrams and Bowker are the other big metadata providers. Ingram's is good but expensive, but the data faces the same issues.
If you have an ISBN you can also check Worldcat, but at scale it's also probably not free. And if you're working with anything that might have an academic slant, Crossref can be useful.
Book metadata is very challenging. Even the publishers of said books are pretty bad at delivering good metadata.