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How did you get that early traffic? Was it just google traffic? What do you think made people stick in those early days without much happening on the site?
by brador 11y ago
How did you get that early traffic? Was it just google traffic?
What do you think made people stick in those early days without much happening on the site?
- jedberg 11y ago> How did you get that early traffic? Mostly word of mouth. > Was it just google traffic? Google was a good source of traffic, but I seem to recall it being only 10-20% of new users. > What do you think made people stick in those early days without much happening on the site? The community and content. Which is hopefully what gets them to stay now. :)
- nostrademons 11y agoI first visited Reddit the day it opened (June 2005), and then started commenting regularly when they first added comments (Jan 2006). The first announcement was by Paul Graham to comp.lang.lisp. AFAICT on that first visit, the only active users were the two founders (spez and kn0thing), PG, and spez's girlfriend, along with their sockpuppets. It was pretty boring while it was voting-only, but they kept at it, and once they added comments they got a small but fairly active userbase. The initial users were very technical, usually early-adopter programmers, and it drew heavily out of the Lisp/PL-theory crowd. I think that Reddit's YC batchmates also brought along some users, eg. there were a bunch of Semantic Web folks that presumably knew Aaron Schwartz.