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by betashop 16y ago
Thanks for the repost on this!
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by betashop 16y ago
Oh, and btw, we're not a Groupon clone. We're more of a Gilt for great design across a wide range of products. There's a big, big difference between the Groupon-style deal-of-the-day sites and the Gilt-style flash sale sites.
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by betashop 16y ago
Hmmmm ... from the founder (me). We're getting 2k pre-launch signups per day, 26k total in just 13 days, so this "crap" works to build pre-launch buzz and subscribers for your startup. You may want to take a look at the viral tools we built
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by betashop 16y ago
We are directly inviting our old userbase but those numbers are not included here.
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Ask HN: Solve this A/B Test?
1 points by betashop 16y ago|2 comments
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by betashop 16y ago
Thanks!
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by betashop 16y ago
Hi. We've experimented with more than 300 different ad variations and targets on Facebook. We've achieved best-case $1.5/subscriber and we accepted ads that achieved $3.5 or less per subscriber. We eliminated more than 290 ads that did n
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by betashop 16y ago
Prior to that, fab.com was an entirely different business/website with marginal traffic. The numbers below are of new users only.
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by betashop 16y ago
Hi. This has all developed in the past 10 days.
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by betashop 16y ago
Some more interesting data here. 12% of subscribers invite their email contacts, and on average they invite more than 10 people each.
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by betashop 16y ago
done. jason@fab.com too if you don't find it there.
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by betashop 16y ago
No significant traffic before the new landing page.
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How fab.com gained 20,000 pre-launch signups in 10 days
43 points by betashop 16y ago|21 comments
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Ask HN: Facebook should buy Instagram
1 points by betashop 16y ago|1 comments
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by betashop 16y ago
Cool, thanks for the feedback!
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by betashop 16y ago
Mainly spreading the word on facebook and via highly targeted facebook ads.
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by betashop 16y ago
Hey there -- the domain wasn't as much as you might imagine.
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Ask HN: rate the fab.com viral signup process
6 points by betashop 16y ago|7 comments
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by betashop 16y ago
Agree Louis. It constantly frustrated us with fab.com that we were building really cool product that most of our friends would never use. Hopefully that will change with the new focus!
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by betashop 16y ago
Thanks so much for re-posting this Tony. This was a really hard decision but once we made it, there's no turning back. I hope everyone can benefit from our logic and thoughts behind our pivot, and the 10 questions listed in the post. Happ
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Startup Year 2 (vs. year 1)(betashop.com)
4 points by betashop 16y ago|0 comments
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Fab.com launches, raises 1.75M Series A Round (fab.com)
1 points by betashop 16y ago|0 comments
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by betashop 16y ago
Anyone have experience with fogbugz?
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Ask HN: Best light-weight bug tracking tool, more robust than TRAC?
30 points by betashop 16y ago|44 comments
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by betashop 16y ago
This is a tough one. On Jobster I made 2 big mistakes with regard to this. (1) I gave up the chief product role too early in terms of getting too busy with other aspects of running the business to really guide and impact the product. (2
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by betashop 16y ago
are there such people? j/k. We started with facebook only as a way to help ensure that our users are real people with real names, real pictures, and real friends. This was especially important in building a gay website so that we could set
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by betashop 16y ago
It's just been my experience that drinking on airplanes has an adverse effect on productivity in the air and then once on the ground. Let's say you take a flight from SF to Chicago or NYC. You have a couple of drinks on the plane so then
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Fabulis (Glitter,Glammer,GayFace,GaySquare), raises 1.25M [TechCrunch](techcrunch.com)
1 points by betashop 16y ago|0 comments
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Slideshare: facebook check-ins end-to-end experience(slideshare.net)
1 points by betashop 16y ago|0 comments
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Start-me-up, video: the making of a gay startup(youtube.com)
3 points by betashop 17y ago|1 comments

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