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The app itself is the business, and is separate from his blog. (Although it works together with his blog and with many other blogs, his particular blog is not a
by csallen 10y ago
The app itself is the business, and is separate from his blog. (Although it works together with his blog and with many other blogs, his particular blog is not a necessity.)
EDIT: To respond to your edit, I agree he was able to leverage his blog's popularity. But his blog is only one out of 231 listed on SubmitHub. Thus, his blog's readers account for what's likely a negligible fraction of SubmitHub's users. That's not to say his blog wasn't helpful. It's just a totally separate business. The reason SubmitHub is doing so well is because he added to his blog AND to those 230 other blogs, and he did that in 10 months.
- fiatjaf 10y agoRead the part about network effect. His blog is a small part of SubmitHub now, but it was crucial that he had his blog in there in the beggining.
- csallen 10y agoThose network effects would've been the same if he'd launched SubmitHub on a different but equally popular blog. Analogy: Let's say you invent a new and superior way to cook french fries. Is it crucial for you to own your own restaurant chain so you can demonstrate the fry machine in action before selling it to other chains? I would say it's not.