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This is a classic case for "Be so good that they cannot ignore you". For such a long time TC have deliberately refrained from mentioning/promoting StackOverflo
by niyazpk 16y ago
This is a classic case for "Be so good that they cannot ignore you".
For such a long time TC have deliberately refrained from mentioning/promoting StackOverflow.
Thank you guys (the SO team and the contributors), for providing such a valuable website for programmers.
- nikcub 16y agoThere was never a deliberate effort from TC to ignore StackOverflow, I linked to it in some of my posts there. IIRC we simply were not in the loop on their news, announcements or tips. A lot of the TC'ers use Quora which is why it is mentioned a lot, but in TC dev we were definitely big fans of StackOverflow, its just that the full-time writers didn't use it or notice it as much. If you look at Techmeme, you can see that StackOverflow hasn't been getting much attention from the usual tech blogs: http://techmeme.com/search/query?q=stackoverflow&wm=false http://techmeme.com/search/query?q=stackoverflow&wm=fals... I figure it is for the same reason - they weren't actively reaching out to the tech bloggers and instead using their own blogs for PR. Still worked out well for them :)
- ig1 16y agoQuora has become hugely significant in the startup community, it's probably now the largest online community of startup people.
- JasonPunyon 16y agoHow can you tell how many users there are?
- ig1 16y agoI'm not saying that with any scientific basis, but rather on the basis that a much larger percentage of the startup community seems to be active there than on other sites. Often when you see someone ask about a random startup you'll get the startup's founder or an investor answering, something which you rarely see elsewhere.