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I didn't build out an account page for https://ipinfo.io https://ipinfo.io until we had about 500 paying customers. If you needed to update your credit card or
by coderholic 8y ago
I didn't build out an account page for https://ipinfo.io https://ipinfo.io until we had about 500 paying customers. If you needed to update your credit card or make other account changes you had to email me, and I'd update the database manually. Only after I was spending at least an hour every day dealing with those sort of requests did we go and build out a full account dashboard, where users could manage their accounts themselves, plus also do bulk uploads, see a graph or request volumes, and interact with the API via a UI. Before that the focus had been 100% on the API and the data quality.
- kanon 8y agoHow did you acquire the customers if I may ask?
- coderholic 8y agoStackOverflow has been a big source of users for us: https://blog.ipinfo.io/i-answered-99-stack-overflow-questions-and-now-2-million-developers-know-about-my-product-502b6b9f1eb3 https://blog.ipinfo.io/i-answered-99-stack-overflow-question...
- fourthark 8y agoYou can get knocked for spam if you do that.
- coderholic 8y agoOnly if you're spamming, and not actually answering questions with a useful solution while declaring your affiliation. Here's an example answer: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/409999/getting-the-location-from-an-ip-address/17864552#17864552 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/409999/getting-the-locat...
- wayoverthecloud 8y agoIf I may, where do you get the data?
- krallja 8y agoPeople were emailing you their credit card numbers?
- coderholic 8y agoNo, I'd create and share a one time link that'd take them to a page where they could enter their CC details via stripe Checkout.js.
- jabart 8y agoHow long did it take to get 500 customers?
- coderholic 8y ago3 - 4 years.