We launched the NewsCred private alpha via HackerNews a couple months ago, and the last 8 weeks have been a whirlwind of excitement.
The feedback here was very positive. We listened and made some changes immediately and then reached out to a few bloggers. TechCrunch, Mashable etc covered, and we received some decent reviews (nothing fantastic). It was still exciting to see your baby up on TechCrunch!
Traffic that comes with these reviews was good, but I hear it used to be a lot better before. We got a thousand new users from the TC post, nothing crazy. Mashable was a mere blip. Other less known blogs sent a LOT more traffic. We reached out to a lot of smaller bloggers and niche sites for feedback and that was quite fruitful.
We have daily users who love the site. That gives us hope and makes it all worthwhile. We've pushed out a lot of new features, and are gearing up for our public launch (although sneak preview available now).
Our main thing is to get the daily user count in the thousands every day. We now have some days where its less, some days where its a lot more. But we're aiming for consistency. Considering we are about to officially launch publicly, we're very happy with progress.
The feedback here was very positive. We listened and made some changes immediately and then reached out to a few bloggers. TechCrunch, Mashable etc covered, and we received some decent reviews (nothing fantastic). It was still exciting to see your baby up on TechCrunch!
Traffic that comes with these reviews was good, but I hear it used to be a lot better before. We got a thousand new users from the TC post, nothing crazy. Mashable was a mere blip. Other less known blogs sent a LOT more traffic. We reached out to a lot of smaller bloggers and niche sites for feedback and that was quite fruitful.
We have daily users who love the site. That gives us hope and makes it all worthwhile. We've pushed out a lot of new features, and are gearing up for our public launch (although sneak preview available now).
Our main thing is to get the daily user count in the thousands every day. We now have some days where its less, some days where its a lot more. But we're aiming for consistency. Considering we are about to officially launch publicly, we're very happy with progress.
Its all about marketing and user acquisition now!