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Socialcam adds millions of users, scales, and pushes new version all in one week

43 points by mwseibel 15y ago

mwseibel 15y ago
Quick shoutout to the folks at JTV, Twitch, Exec, YC, our investors, AWS, and many many helpful friends - without all of your support this wouldn't have been possible. Also quick thanks to Mike Krieger from Instagram - his scaling presentation convinced us that a couple smart dudes and AWS can scale anything. Now, back to work!
- dirkdk 15y ago
  congrats Michael, doing an awesome job!
- FameofLight 15y ago
  Congratz Michael, yeah Instagram presentation was nice :)
sauteedbiscuits 15y ago
Is this users as in facebook installs, or users as in ios/android app installs. Big difference, as socialcam makes you authorize their facebook app to watch videos posted by other socialcam users via FB. Having those users add the socialcam app does not equal a app download, nor a active user in my opinion. Their only interaction was watching a video. Its the same thing as authorizing yahoo to read a story a friend posted. You can call that a "user" but you are just lieing to yourself. Its a glorified visit. Still, its crazy impressive either way- But it does not compare to instagram style numbers if they are counting that. Instagram did their reported numbers in app downloads, not facebook auths.
- enjo 15y ago
  Do you count videos served or videos uploaded as the primary metric for YouTube? It's the latter that drives revenue after all.
- tarallemsi 15y ago
  Have to agree that this stat smells a liiiitttttle fishy https://twitter.com/#!/search/socialcam https://twitter.com/#!/search/socialcam -- you'd expect more twitter action for a social thingie with 4MM new users in a weekend
  - rabidsnail 15y ago
    If you want evidence for how much adoption it has, download it and see how many followers you get. More evidence: it's the #2 free app on the app store.
    - tarallemsi 15y ago
      #2 on app store is definitely impressive. Why only 25 ratings I wonder.. App is very nice, fast, and functional Felt like a bit of a google+ ghost town vibe though. On the follow friends screen it looked like a ton of my friends were on socialcam but on the feed it's just the same 2 people posting, and not that frequently. There are the celebs on there though.. All in all seems like they're doing pretty well and also exaggerating usership in the way the poster above describes
snowmaker 15y ago
Congrats to Michael and the hard working folks at Socialcam, who fully deserve their success. I've been using it since V1 and it continues to be one of my most used apps. Also kudos to them for not over-associating their company as the Instagram for video, which must have been tempting recently. While that is one description, Socialcam seems to have its own original vision and is clearly chasing it with gusto.
priley 15y ago
So impressive. You guys execute like a freight train. Keep it up.
dsk2012 15y ago
So ... How many billions is it worth?
richcollins 15y ago
I knew they'd just turned the corner when a friend Redwood City, my old weightlifting coach and my brother in law in New York all watched the same video (posted to FB).
RaymarkSen 15y ago
Hard work pays !! This is very impressive..

43 points by mwseibel 15y ago

Quick shoutout to the folks at JTV, Twitch, Exec, YC, our investors, AWS, and many many helpful friends - without all of your support this wouldn't have been possible. Also quick thanks to Mike Krieger from Instagram - his scaling presentation convinced us that a couple smart dudes and AWS can scale anything. Now, back to work!

dirkdk 15y ago
congrats Michael, doing an awesome job!
FameofLight 15y ago
Congratz Michael, yeah Instagram presentation was nice :)

sauteedbiscuits 15y ago

Is this users as in facebook installs, or users as in ios/android app installs. Big difference, as socialcam makes you authorize their facebook app to watch videos posted by other socialcam users via FB. Having those users add the socialcam app does not equal a app download, nor a active user in my opinion. Their only interaction was watching a video. Its the same thing as authorizing yahoo to read a story a friend posted. You can call that a "user" but you are just lieing to yourself. Its a glorified visit. Still, its crazy impressive either way- But it does not compare to instagram style numbers if they are counting that. Instagram did their reported numbers in app downloads, not facebook auths.

enjo 15y ago
Do you count videos served or videos uploaded as the primary metric for YouTube? It's the latter that drives revenue after all.
tarallemsi 15y ago
Have to agree that this stat smells a liiiitttttle fishy https://twitter.com/#!/search/socialcam https://twitter.com/#!/search/socialcam -- you'd expect more twitter action for a social thingie with 4MM new users in a weekend
- rabidsnail 15y ago
  If you want evidence for how much adoption it has, download it and see how many followers you get. More evidence: it's the #2 free app on the app store.
  - tarallemsi 15y ago
    #2 on app store is definitely impressive. Why only 25 ratings I wonder.. App is very nice, fast, and functional Felt like a bit of a google+ ghost town vibe though. On the follow friends screen it looked like a ton of my friends were on socialcam but on the feed it's just the same 2 people posting, and not that frequently. There are the celebs on there though.. All in all seems like they're doing pretty well and also exaggerating usership in the way the poster above describes

snowmaker 15y ago

Congrats to Michael and the hard working folks at Socialcam, who fully deserve their success. I've been using it since V1 and it continues to be one of my most used apps. Also kudos to them for not over-associating their company as the Instagram for video, which must have been tempting recently. While that is one description, Socialcam seems to have its own original vision and is clearly chasing it with gusto.

priley 15y ago

So impressive. You guys execute like a freight train. Keep it up.

dsk2012 15y ago

So ... How many billions is it worth?

richcollins 15y ago

I knew they'd just turned the corner when a friend Redwood City, my old weightlifting coach and my brother in law in New York all watched the same video (posted to FB).

RaymarkSen 15y ago

Hard work pays !! This is very impressive..