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Great post. It's easy to get downheartened when you've just released a new project and you're only getting 1 or 2 users per day. What you have to remember tho
by benjaminwootton 14y ago
Great post.
It's easy to get downheartened when you've just released a new project and you're only getting 1 or 2 users per day.
What you have to remember though is that almost all successful blogs, sites, applications started off like this.
I bet the likes of Instagram, Twitter, Blogger were a ghost town for ages before taking off.
Though Facebook went viral really quickly, I bet Zuckerbergs heart skipped a beat the first time someone signed up.
Kyle, can you tell us more about that early period when the first handful of visitors started using the site? How did they find you?
- kylebragger 14y agoThank you. You're very right -- it's so easy to get discouraged at the apparent lack of activity in any early product, no matter how jazzed you might be about it. It's also easy to get caught up in the "if you build it they will come" mindset. Sadly, this seems to be rarely the case, even for the best of products. (Though as adamtmca notes, it's certainly possible!) The first few 100 users of Forrst were all my friends and colleagues, and theirs as well. I invited folks I trusted would give me raw, honest feedback, and I trusted them to invite similarly-minded people. The next ~1,500 users came from this post: http://thinkvitamin.com/design/forrst-finds-designers-who-code-developers-who-design/ http://thinkvitamin.com/design/forrst-finds-designers-who-co...
- adamtmca 14y agoInstagram hit a million users in about 90 days.