Ask HN: How did you acquire your first 100 users?

Re:Ask HN: How did you acquire your first 100 users? by _fizz_buzz_ on Tuesday April 25, 2017 @04:21AM (#14191682)

It's a decent idea. I think a problem will be that you are trying to compete too much with stackoverflow.

* "provide a community reviewed wiki explaining what X is about": http://stackoverflow.com/tags/javascript/info

* "provide a Stackoverflow like QA section": http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/javascript

* "provide an chatroom to replicate the IRC experience": http://chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/17/javascript

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Re:Ask HN: How did you acquire your first 100 users? by metalmanac on Tuesday April 25, 2017 @04:36AM (#14191739)

My hypothesis is that 99% of the people who use Stackoverflow only visit the QA part of it and things like the community wiki and chatroom receive minimal traffic. From talking to a few dozens of users, most people don't even know that the chat room and wiki exist!

The current number of users in the Stackoverflow chat rooms

> with 100 users currently talking in 57 rooms.

The usage of the chat is shockingly low.

I think there's room to provide a better learning experience for developers and providing chat rooms for developers is a low hanging fruit IMO. People here on HN know about IRC and how to use it, but we represent a very small fraction of the population interested in programming, so the idea is to tend to the general population eventually.

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Re:Ask HN: How did you acquire your first 100 users? by stuaxo on Tuesday April 25, 2017 @07:05AM (#14192388)

This is the first I've heard of a wiki or chatroom on S/O and I probably won't visit them now I know they exist either.

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