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There is still a waitlist but we're working hard to open things up ASAP. Some people will never believe it, but the waitlist was never intended as a growth hack

There is still a waitlist but we're working hard to open things up ASAP. Some people will never believe it, but the waitlist was never intended as a growth hack. It was purely an attempt to keep the network healthy and the servers from catching on fire as we iterated on the app itself. For devs that want to experiment, we've had a special waitlist for a while: https://atproto.com/blog/call-for-developers https://atproto.com/blog/call-for-developers

slimsag 3y ago
Loving bluesky so far, thanks for making it. Honestly it's the best competitor to Twitter I have seen so far, and after looking at the company / job listings and seeing how incredibly focused you are on the UI/UX aspects.. it seems an incredibly compelling product vision / company. Kudos. As an aside, do you have any plans to make your choices of domain names / branding less confusing / sketchy looking? (bsky.app, blueskyweb.xyz, bsky.social for user names, 'Bluesky Social' on the app store, etc)
- jakebsky 3y ago
  Thank you! And yeah, the goal is to bring an open social media protocol to everyone in a way that feels familiar and easy. The social media problems we face are societal and most of society is non-technical. The domain situation is unfortunate and confusing. We don't have any immediate solution but agree it's a problem.
pfraze 3y ago
not only was it not a growth hack, I've been shocked it didn't kill all of our growth. it was done purely out of necessity
ziml77 3y ago
What's wild is that the same people who call it a growth hack also acknowledge that the waitlist isn't limiting growth and overall interest.
CraftingLinks 3y ago
Amateurs. you guys blew a once in a life time. Invites/waitlist... For a social media app. Seen it before with that other app who's name I forgot about.
- wlonkly 3y ago
  Livejournal?
d3w4s9 3y ago
"keep the network healthy" You guys know that every single playform eventually go downhill in content quality as the user base grows, right? You are wasting your time. You'd better open up now or never. Nobody will bother looking at your product in a year if Threads gets bigger and better.

slimsag 3y ago

Loving bluesky so far, thanks for making it. Honestly it's the best competitor to Twitter I have seen so far, and after looking at the company / job listings and seeing how incredibly focused you are on the UI/UX aspects.. it seems an incredibly compelling product vision / company. Kudos. As an aside, do you have any plans to make your choices of domain names / branding less confusing / sketchy looking? (bsky.app, blueskyweb.xyz, bsky.social for user names, 'Bluesky Social' on the app store, etc)

jakebsky 3y ago
Thank you! And yeah, the goal is to bring an open social media protocol to everyone in a way that feels familiar and easy. The social media problems we face are societal and most of society is non-technical. The domain situation is unfortunate and confusing. We don't have any immediate solution but agree it's a problem.

pfraze 3y ago

not only was it not a growth hack, I've been shocked it didn't kill all of our growth. it was done purely out of necessity

ziml77 3y ago

What's wild is that the same people who call it a growth hack also acknowledge that the waitlist isn't limiting growth and overall interest.

CraftingLinks 3y ago

Amateurs. you guys blew a once in a life time. Invites/waitlist... For a social media app. Seen it before with that other app who's name I forgot about.

wlonkly 3y ago
Livejournal?

d3w4s9 3y ago

"keep the network healthy" You guys know that every single playform eventually go downhill in content quality as the user base grows, right? You are wasting your time. You'd better open up now or never. Nobody will bother looking at your product in a year if Threads gets bigger and better.