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How I Got My First 1000 Users in 1 Day

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Re: How I Got My First 1000 Users in 1 Day

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which subreddit? r/technology hasn't been giving me much love

that's too general. r/apple, r/iphone, r/software are starting points and a lot more specific. If you plan on developing an Android version, then r/Android, r/androidapps

nice! ok , ill try those then

Re: How I Got My First 1000 Users in 1 Day

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How were you able to get Apple to accept the app when it's locked by a login screen? I suffered with 2 different apps that had been rejected because they required the user to register/login before they can use the app.

you can add a test login username and password in the meta data

Re: How I Got My First 1000 Users in 1 Day

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I think I totally misread this title as "how I got my first 1000 users - in one day" rather than, what I think it means, which is "how I got my first 1000-users-in-1-day"! Still, useful tips, and you obviously have a lot of energy when it comes to getting the word out, which can only be admired.

thanks! I'm trying to hustle as hard as I can right now.

Re: How I Got My First 1000 Users in 1 Day

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Nice Idea, localized networks are trending fast. Do you remember what day of the week and at what time you posted the successful HN post? what about those that didn't work?

It was wednesday at around 11 AM PST. I'm pretty sure the other times were closer to mid-day like 12 - 2. Although this post was posted mid-day as well, however on Thursday and it seemed to do really well.

Re: How I Got My First 1000 Users in 1 Day

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This was probably my most embarrassing oversight. Your first point is the way it's working. I'm trying to figure out if there's a way to make that work without segmenting the map into fixed cells... any thoughts?

I can't think of any other way off hand. I'm assuming you don't like cells because of edge cases where two people could be near each other but in different cells? If the cells were carefully selected it might not be too big of a problem. For example, you could put each college campus in its own cell. But that could take a while and you'd have to drop the one-mile guarantee. I'll let you know if I think of anything el…

ok sweet! just keep me updated. im all ears.

Re: How I Got My First 1000 Users in 1 Day

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Nice Idea, localized networks are trending fast. Do you remember what day of the week and at what time you posted the successful HN post? what about those that didn't work?

It was wednesday at around 11 AM PST. I'm pretty sure the other times were closer to mid-day like 12 - 2. Although this post was posted mid-day as well, however on Thursday and it seemed to do really well.

thanks! A few days ago there was another article suggesting that the best time to post was around 19h in the evening (GMT) which is consistent with what you say of 11-12 AM PST. The only difference was the day, he was posting on sunday I believe.

what day of the week were the 2 failed attempts posted on?

I'm trying to sense the pulse of the HN crowd, to see when we all slack off the most ;)

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