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Why not build on fruji vs starting anew? How long ago did you launch it? What kind of growth could you see if you focused on it?
by geekfactor 14y ago
Why not build on fruji vs starting anew? How long ago did you launch it? What kind of growth could you see if you focused on it?
- mittermayr 14y agoso fruji is interesting. everytime i shut it down (database issues, twitter api changes, etc.) and turn it back on, people start flocking to it immediately after, and it grows from 10 signups a day to 150 a day quickly. that's awesome. payments are coming in as well, drafting new (more expensive) account types for corporate users looking good and so forth. but i've had a couple of really popular a-listers sign up, won't name them here, but you all know them. and after i had to tell the 5th over 1M+ follower person that it'll take more than a few days to scan their account (run analysis) based on twitter's api rate limits, it just feels terrible. i thought i'd just lock out people with accounts over 500k (can you imagine?!), it'd make a lot of things easier. twitter has been very responsive and i've been able to submit a couple of bugs with them successfully. but i'm really worried this one gets shut down and i do not even have the tiniest chance of doing anything about it. i'll keep going with it. but it just runs all by itself now. a very smart, distributed system, i just receive payment notifications. edit: one thing about twitter: i can not spend any of the payments i receive. if twitter shuts me down tomorrow (they likely won't), i have a lot of people who paid me for a yearly account and it's money i need to refund. so that's locked up credit at this point until the year expires.