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> I launched the app on Reddit on Ivy Day. A lot of people got rejected and were extremely frustrated, so this app was like the perfect stress ball. I was not p
by gaws 1y ago
> I launched the app on Reddit on Ivy Day. A lot of people got rejected and were extremely frustrated, so this app was like the perfect stress ball. I was not prepared for the huge spike in traffic.
The author intentionally released the app on one of the most-viewed sites on the internet (Reddit) on one of the biggest days for high school graduates (Ivy Day). How, in this hyper viral time, did he not consider the possibility of high traffic?
- scienceman 1y agoPeople post things all the time and they flop or get little attention. Reddit may be one of the most-viewed sites on the internet but that doesn't mean everything posted on it is too.
- magneticnorth 1y agoIt's almost never that easy to get a simple side project website to go viral.
- skillseeddev 1y agoI've launched a dozen other projects on Reddit before, and none of them went this viral.