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How We Grew Our Side Project to $60K Revenue in 6 Months
- andyraskin 11y agoI particularly like 2 things about this story: 1) They chose the market niche BEFORE designing the product 2) The Craigslist scraper growth hack.
- nbadg 11y agoThe craigslist strategy is really smart. Email has way better response rates than, say, facebook, and it seems like a solid way to get past the initial "spread beyond your immediate social network" problem. That said though, it doesn't sit quite right with me. I'm aware this is mostly a problem inherent with the craislist format, but it seems like scraping tools like they used [1] are ripe for abuse, and that by some definitions, unsolicited and unrelated emails could be considered abuse. Nonetheless, it's a really smart growth strategy. [1] http://www.craigslistscraper.net/ http://www.craigslistscraper.net/