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Congrats on the revenue. Interesting product but IMO very niche. I don't see this scaling to anything meaningful with Elon at the helm "disrupting". Few questi

Congrats on the revenue. Interesting product but IMO very niche. I don't see this scaling to anything meaningful with Elon at the helm "disrupting". Few questions: How did you get your first users? Is this really a problem on Twitter? Plenty of tools out there to get your bookmarks. I don't see this being huge.

yy633013 4y ago
Thanks for the congrats. If you go and search Twitter search you'll find tens of thousands of people complaining about bookmarks being an afterthought. I personally got tired of this being the red-headed stepchild feature for the Twitter product team so built dewey. It solves my problem and we're lucky enough to have built something awesome that solves other people's problems too. Search volume around Twitter bookmarks is also steadily growing, especially with recent drama at Twitter and users trying to back up their data in case Twitter dies. Our first users came from Twitter search outreach. Find people that complain about Twitter bookmarks in a tweet or ask a question, and reply with the value prop for dewey. and a link. PaulG's things that don't scale. And yes, it really is a problem. At first Twitter Blue was shipped to give users folders (4 years after feature release) but most of our users have hundreds if not thousands of bookmarks and Twitter, in their brilliance, didn't ship search. This means that, whoops, I have folders now and I'm paying for them but I can't actually do anything meaningful with my historical bookmarks at all. No way to parse. That's why we built dewey., and we did it well before the API for Bookmarks even existed which was a fun technical challenge to overcome.