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Dude, I want you to succeed and reach your potential, and I don't like saying things like this, but .. you count your uniques in 1 digits? Dude. I have users

Dude, I want you to succeed and reach your potential, and I don't like saying things like this, but .. you count your uniques in 1 digits? Dude. I have users who do nothing but post every few weeks about how much they hate their teacher and they are kicking your ass by orders of magnitude. I had kind of come to believe 100 or so hits a day, uniques that is, was the new baseline for any kind of non-copypasta content. Even 10k hits a day is sort of ... meh? Great proof of concept if the trend is heading upwards but useless in and of itself? What I'm trying to say here my friend is .. you can do a lot, LOT better than <10 uniques. Seriously, any blog at all can do better than that. You absolutely need to start a company blog ASAP and just write about ANYTHING. Mention anything you learnt in any aspect of development, you will have 100 uniques/day in a week and maybe more. I guess what I'm trying to say is .. I like your attitude but geeze, you need to recalibrate your scale a bit. Sub 10 uniques a day is pitifully low and almost below just random; I'd almost advise you to check your DNS etc. Any kind of useful company blog whatsoever will put you orders of magnitude about that. Yes, erase the concept of "failing" from existence. But don't erase "improvement" as well....

apsurd 17y ago
Thanks for your advice. To be clear I do not have any type of blog, company or otherwise. The problem is very simply that I am a programmer. I spend time programming; not marketing. I don't have an (active) twitter, facebook, myspace, linkedin, blog, etc. Yes yes I know how important it is to have them! - but the point is I don't. So I always just build out things because I'm a semi-noob programmer. I've learned from experience, that its all about customer development, so that's what I will do now. But it is indeed factual that I have about 8 visits a day =). Lastly, I am a 37 signals guy. I measure (company) success in profit. So it is nice to measure the importance of how many uniques you get, only so much as it contributes to the bottom line. I.e. A blog might need 50trillion uniques to make $x. A paid app, eh probably not so much.

apsurd 17y ago

Thanks for your advice. To be clear I do not have any type of blog, company or otherwise. The problem is very simply that I am a programmer. I spend time programming; not marketing. I don't have an (active) twitter, facebook, myspace, linkedin, blog, etc. Yes yes I know how important it is to have them! - but the point is I don't. So I always just build out things because I'm a semi-noob programmer. I've learned from experience, that its all about customer development, so that's what I will do now. But it is indeed factual that I have about 8 visits a day =). Lastly, I am a 37 signals guy. I measure (company) success in profit. So it is nice to measure the importance of how many uniques you get, only so much as it contributes to the bottom line. I.e. A blog might need 50trillion uniques to make $x. A paid app, eh probably not so much.