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[hrishimittal]

Hmmmmm, very nice concept. Have you thought about how you are going to deal with scalability and monetising issues?

[mixmax → hrishimittal]

I'm going to get both of them in one shot:

The hard thing about scaling a service like this is the social graph, AKA. when users have a lot of followers. So I'm going to use the freemium model and let users follow 10 or 20 people for free, and then start charging.

That way I'll start making money at the same time I have scaling problems.

[hrishimittal → mixmax]

Nice. I love how open you are about your plans. Thanks so much for sharing all this with us. Do you have a blog?

Oh by the way, shouldn't you charge for being followed rather than following?

Will you give me a free premium account if I write an ebook about your app?

[mixmax → hrishimittal]

Sure, I'll give a free premium account to anyone on HN that asks. I have a blog over at http://www.maximise.dk/blog but it's boring and there are definitely no posts that are only 14 characters.