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Key to FMyLife's Success?
FMyLife.com was registered on 2009-01-18. Thats a little over two months ago.
According to the Alexa ranking system, its already at 2,508.
As far as I'm concerned, I've never seen any web site gain such immense popularity so quickly.
My question to you, is what about the site made it so popular so fast? is it repeatable? And lastly where is the business model?
- noodle 18y agoits popular because it did a lot of things right. it appeals to the right crowd, its entertaining and fun, its simple to use, it created and used its own meme, and it promoted itself very effectively.
- antipax 18y agoIt's popular because it's hilarious. Probably not repeatable, if only because few things are as funny as other people's happy sorrows. Business model is based on advertising, I suppose.
- ErrantX 18y agothey are also publishing a book of the most popular FU's. I guess that is probably worth more.
- coglethorpe 18y agoThat's kind of like Post Secret's model and likely other site's models. Get users to create your book for you.
- Slzr 18y agoI am surprised too, the alexa ranking its impressive, althought it may be not very accurate, since I would think many people that read it do not visit the site but follow it on twitter and rss. My guess its that its kind of funny and misery sells, but I think no one could have predicted such a big hit out of this dumb idea.
- arien 18y agoAre you sure that's the correct registration date? I recall visiting that site last year... Or maybe it was in January after all.. Not sure now :/
- bgnm2000 18y agoI copied the date directly from godaddy's whois database, so I believe it is correct, unless I overlooked something.
- sho 18y agoSee my comment above - the site existed in some form circa Oct 2008.
- arien 18y agoThat was exactly my point. Besides that, to make sure I wasn't crazy, I checked some chat logs I had. I did send some FML links to a friend on Jan 14th, so the domain was registered at least 4 days before the date mentioned. In that case, maybe it could have been simply re-registered, as sho mentioned.
- sho 18y agoSimply navigating to the oldest posts shows that the site itself existed prior to the stated registration date. The earliest post I can see, #6, has the date of 10/13/2008. That's still pretty recent, but earlier than the time in the comment. It's possible it was at a different domain, of course, or that the domain was re-registered. http://www.fmylife.com/love/6 http://www.fmylife.com/love/6