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I wonder how he got all those users in the first place. http://www.torn.com/ http://www.torn.com/ is poorly designed and doesn't elaborate on what the game is.
by chimariko 17y ago
I wonder how he got all those users in the first place. http://www.torn.com/ http://www.torn.com/ is poorly designed and doesn't elaborate on what the game is.
It is ability to gain a community rather than design that matters for this type of web-service.
It's a handful of PHP scripts with little to actually "do" - at least at the intro level - training is merely clicking on some JavaScript buttons.
What difference for the player does it make what technology was used for scripting and buttons? An average guy from these 40k users might not even know such words as JavaScript/PHP/Flash.
- petercooper 17y ago<em>It is ability to gain a community rather than design that matters for this type of web-service.</em> Yeah, I get that, but the front page is just a signup form. If I set up a page like that, it wouldn't magically get signups. There must be some marketing involved someplace.
- rortian 17y agoI hope you are not serious. People are not only in touch with each other through the internet. There are lots of different ways for people to hear about a game (friends, school, work, etc.)
- petercooper 17y agoYou make a good point. I first heard about Hacker News from a giant magenta squirrel who was fighting a toad with chopsticks.