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Congrats on the app launch (To give a different take on someone else's comment; I've been a fan of yours since you introduced my girlfriend to puchi puchis year

Congrats on the app launch (To give a different take on someone else's comment; I've been a fan of yours since you introduced my girlfriend to puchi puchis years ago!) I'm curious about how you time all of this. Do the 170 invitations get sent out simultaneously (Bar the manual captcha ones), or is it more staggered? e.g. Could the big fish like Techcrunch and such expect to be notified first normally, or is it a blast to everyone? I'm also curious what your plans are to keep your service's reputation with the bloggers on the receiving end intact (The fact it is paid for, and not too cheap, really helps this I imagine), but anything else you have in mind? e.g. Do yous do any kind of filtering of the submissions?

fookyong 14y ago
haha puchi puchi... blast from the past. the way Peterpings works is you set a time that you want your notification to be delivered and it delivers in the publisher's local time. So if you say "I want publishers to see this at 9am on Monday" - the UK blogs will see it at their Monday 9am, and the US blogs will see it at their Monday 9am. And so on. Delivery time is super important, as me and my co-founder have experienced many times first-hand. As for reputation, you're right in that there is a natural filter, that being cost. Beyond that we have thought about narrower targeting / filtering but in the end it has to be up to the blogger. The more blogs we introduce, the more tools we will create for those bloggers - for example to only receive a certain genre of app notification (e.g. games). And we will always be transparent about the number of blogs that your notification goes to. Nobody wants to know that they are sending something to a blogger who doesn't want to receive it.
- michaelmartin 14y ago
  Ah I didn't realise that about the timings, that's a great solution. I definitely like the sound of localising that to each blogger. The filtering tools sound great too, it's great to see yous already have plans for that area. Looking forward to seeing how it progresses, best of luck!

fookyong 14y ago

haha puchi puchi... blast from the past. the way Peterpings works is you set a time that you want your notification to be delivered and it delivers in the publisher's local time. So if you say "I want publishers to see this at 9am on Monday" - the UK blogs will see it at their Monday 9am, and the US blogs will see it at their Monday 9am. And so on. Delivery time is super important, as me and my co-founder have experienced many times first-hand. As for reputation, you're right in that there is a natural filter, that being cost. Beyond that we have thought about narrower targeting / filtering but in the end it has to be up to the blogger. The more blogs we introduce, the more tools we will create for those bloggers - for example to only receive a certain genre of app notification (e.g. games). And we will always be transparent about the number of blogs that your notification goes to. Nobody wants to know that they are sending something to a blogger who doesn't want to receive it.

michaelmartin 14y ago
Ah I didn't realise that about the timings, that's a great solution. I definitely like the sound of localising that to each blogger. The filtering tools sound great too, it's great to see yous already have plans for that area. Looking forward to seeing how it progresses, best of luck!