Ask HN: How did Socialcam gain 4M users this weekend?

#1

Post by mhunter » Tue, Apr 24, 2012, 2:32 AM UTC

There's a recruiting post (see: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3881446) on HN that mentions Socialcam gained 4M users this weekend. How did they do it?

Alexa: http://traffic.alexa.com/graph?w=400&h=220&o=f&c=1&y=t&b=ffffff&n=666666&r=6m&u=socialcam.com&

Re: Ask HN: How did Socialcam gain 4M users this weekend?

#2

Post by zbruhnke » Tue, Apr 24, 2012, 2:42 AM UTC

yep ... that's the graph you want to show investors haha

Re: Ask HN: How did Socialcam gain 4M users this weekend?

#3

Post by bmelton » Tue, Apr 24, 2012, 3:21 AM UTC

http://www.quora.com/Socialcam/How-did-SocialCam-add-4mm-use...

Reposted (blatantly stolen):

1) It's featured in the app store under "New & Noteworthy"

2) It ranks #2 for "Video Camera" searches

3) When you connect Socialcam to Facebook it says, "This app may post on your behalf, including videos you watched, people you followed and more."

Re: Ask HN: How did Socialcam gain 4M users this weekend?

#4

Post by mhunter » Tue, Apr 24, 2012, 3:40 AM UTC

bmelton wrote: post #3

http://www.quora.com/Socialcam/How-did-SocialCam-add-4mm-use... Reposted (blatantly stolen): 1) It's featured in the app store under "New & Noteworthy" 2) It ranks #2 for "Video Camera" searches 3) When you connect Socialcam to Facebook it says, "This app may post on your behalf, including videos you watched, people you followed and more."

thanks!

Re: Ask HN: How did Socialcam gain 4M users this weekend?

#5

Post by AznHisoka » Tue, Apr 24, 2012, 6:31 PM UTC

I can see how being featured in the App Store can give you 100K users, but 4 million? Really?