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How to get your first 100k active users

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Re: How to get your first 100k active users

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Hard to take her seriously when she is an sjw who discriminates against men and hires women. Read her post again. She says hiring women led to less bullshit. I call this bullshit. My prediction is that company will fold within a year due to catfighting. Hard to take every dumbo seriously these days.

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Re: How to get your first 100k active users

#92
post #41

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

That's the one! Any feedback and suggestions are appreciated!

Just a friendly heads up (love the idea!)... clicking "Why Facebook?" works on Chrome, but not Safari (I'm on Safari 11, macOS 10.13.1).

Re: How to get your first 100k active users

#93
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I kind of doubt that whoever does the feature pics looks at the binaries to figure out if it is native or not. As long as the end result is not easily distinguishable from native, I'm sure you are just as likely to be featured.

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.

Re: How to get your first 100k active users

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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.

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

Re: How to get your first 100k active users

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post #94

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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.

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.

Re: How to get your first 100k active users

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post #2

BTW, I'm the OP and am happy to answer questions here. My expertise is obviously in consumer internet products but I spend a lot of time thinking about growth. It's my superpower!

Hey Anne, my qns is with regards to getting a forum started.

I see that Winnie have great topics discussion with questions asked and answered by users.

For a new forum, there are bound to be empty-room syndromes.

How did you guys manage to kickstart discussions in the beginning? Is it all organic or is there some growth hack involved?

This qns have been bothering me a while and I can't seem to get any good readings anywhere else.

Re: How to get your first 100k active users

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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.

For you, but not for most people I’d guess. Or most people don’t care enough and that’s why VSCode is hugely popular.

Re: How to get your first 100k active users

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Kudos - 100k MAU is an extremely impressive feat. This is an excellent post, very succinct and punchy advice. Especially interesting to hear about the role of web and email in growth, advice around using ads to develop company positioning is great.

Re: How to get your first 100k active users

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Thanks for admitting the failures you picked on the way. Since you said Mobile-only was a terrible thing to do, how did you decide Winnie has to be a mobile app and not a simple mobile responsive website in the first place?

I'm really curious how product folks decide to go mobile-first, especially in many cases where the user interacts with the app once a week or less frequently. Would love to know how you decided on this with the assumptions you made.

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