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if it's this simple, why didn't Pownce take off? Hell they even had access to all of digg's power, and still had to shut down. the reason digg took off was tha
by vaksel 17y ago
if it's this simple, why didn't Pownce take off? Hell they even had access to all of digg's power, and still had to shut down.
the reason digg took off was that he was more or less the first in that niche, and he had the power of his tv celebrity to drive that initial amount of early adopter traffic
- sammcd 17y agoI don't know if it really was about becoming first. I think Pownce just wasn't something that users really wanted. I think this backs up YC's idea of focussing on the product user's feedback. I think no amount of marketing seen here can fix the problem of a product people don't want.
- pclark 17y agogetting the users and getting them to keep coming back are different challenges
- axod 17y agoDid Pownce do either of those things?
- barredo 17y agoI guess it did. Remember Pownce was very popular back in 2007 and they added more features than Twitter had at that time. The matter was people didn't wanna write thing twice, one in twitter and one in pownce, and since twitter had more users than Pownce (don't know how many more), it "won the race".