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Love it. Early stage, hard to justify optimizing send-all into 'suggest 5 people to invite'. Total no-brainer to use a drop-in like this. Make onboarding a way

• ivankirigin 12y ago
  Check out this post on viral metrics: http://blog.yesgraph.com/top-3-metrics/ http://blog.yesgraph.com/top-3-metrics/ In short, look at # sending, # invites, and % accept. We know we can do a lot better than the status quo. Invite all: very small # sending, large # invites, very small % accept. By the way, getting marked as spam hurts all your invites, lowering your overall acceptance rates even for direct invites that weren't spamming the whole list. YesGraph: larger # sending, more # invites, larger % accept. This by the way is how to tell the difference between buzzword bullshit "viral" and real products: Math.
  • Zephyr314 12y ago
    I love that last line. I can understand how YesGraph gets a larger % accept, and probably larger # sending because you are so much better than the terrible "solutions" built into most apps, but I don't see how larger # invites directly follow from what you have. Isn't the point fewer, better invites?
    • ivankirigin 12y ago
      When comparing to reply all it will be fewer. Most people sending invites send one or two. Making that two or three, on average, is huge. It's hard to generalize about performance like this because apps are so different. Even within Dropbox for example, there are multiple invite channels, and their performance stats aren't similar.