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How My Gap Logo App Became Viral
- Udo 16y agoThe most awesome thing is how such a dead simple thing could become so successful. Most people who do that kind of stuff see 13 users in their app, over its entire lifetime, and that's including their own mom. Anyway, congratz dude!
- petercooper 16y agoLaunching an app quickly seems particularly effective, though I've noticed in the last year that people are very quick to launch tumblelogs around news events that catch on very quickly. The Kanye West "Imma Let You Finish" fad on http://kanyegate.tumblr.com/ http://kanyegate.tumblr.com/ was a significant one in terms of traction.
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- zalew 16y agoInstant parody apps have a great potential to go viral. A few months ago I launched an even more trivial website about a local Polish event (too complicated to explain to non-Poles), it went 4k uu, 15k, 36k in the first 3 days, then it went down as it obviously only made sense when the topic was hot. Congrats, coding for fun is great.
- zaidf 16y agoYou were a lot more confident that your app will go viral than I am about my apps :) Have you launched similar stuff in past or was this your first shot at it?
- jamesjyu 16y agoI've launched some similar stuff before, but nothing that got this viral. But in this case, I had that funny gut feeling that this would work. You should never, ever ignore that gut feeling -- you'll know it when you feel it.