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I'm not sure how you'll monetize it (ads, I guess), but I think this is actually a pretty interesting idea. You may need to pivot a bit to find a better market
by spokey 16y ago
I'm not sure how you'll monetize it (ads, I guess), but I think this is actually a pretty interesting idea. You may need to pivot a bit to find a better market fit, but FWIW I think you're giving up too easily. (And actually, 2.3 pages per visit seems pretty good as a first pass, but I don't have a lot of experience running adwords campaigns.)
My guess is adwords are probably the wrong way to reach contributors to this site. No one is searching google thinking "I know how to pronounce this word, if only had a way to tell people". You may get some exploratory clicks but you're probably not addressing the problem they went to google to solve. I think you should be spreading awareness (virally?) among content creators, so that they keep you in mind when the problem your are solving occurs to them.
- spokey 16y agoAlso, I meant to add this: > Have any of you had experience with web apps that you > put up, and initially got negligible traction from > visitors, and then, after the right steps had that > increase significantly? Yes. Moreover, I'd guess this is the most common case. That's what this whole release early/iterate thing is about.
- sendos 16y agoYeah, I think this gets back to something Drew Houston of Dropbox said, which is something like "AdWords is a good way of harvesting existing demand and not creating demand" And I do need to create demand, as this is a new sort of service and I need to inform people of its existence. So, I need to find ways to spread awareness, as you say.