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Scaling Bumper Sticker: A 1 Billion Page Per Month Facebook RoR App

• paulgb 18y ago
  "Monetizing Bumper Sticker" would be an interesting article too :).
  • steveplace 18y ago
    From the article: Bumper Sticker was an experiment to see how fast the Light Engineering Development (LED) team at LinkedIn could build a Ruby on Rails Facebook application. Based on that quote, I don't think they had a financial goal with it... although now might be a good time to think of one.
    • wallflower 18y ago
      $25k/month burn rate on Joyent. I don't see any obvious applications to LinkedIn which is what makes me curious in how long they will sustain it. I think they could sell it to Slide, Inc. or one of the other Facebook companies.
      • paulgb 18y ago
        Hopefully the Greater Fool theory will work in their favour.
• ryanb 18y ago
  All of my female friends from college love sending these little images back and forth to one another, and while it's a very simple idea, it seems to be extremely popular. However, in my experience, the Bumper Sticker app is often very slow and clumsy to use. Ironically, I often use it as an example when speaking of Facebook apps that don't do a particularly good job of scaling.