Re:Ask HN: Lifehacker mentioned my app & traffic boosted. Ho...
by rapcal on Tuesday December 27, 2011 @12:32PM
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I cant thank you enough! It's great to talk to someone who had the same experience. Now The Next Web has also done a piece on us too and things are moving.
You point to something that sounds obvious, but truth is I have barely interacted with my users so far. Need to start doing this in a hurry.
I think I also need to improve my sign up process, making it happen on a pop up window through Facebook JS SDK.
My best advice is to start worrying about user retention in a hurry. 99% of people who come to your site from Lifehacker aren't going to keep using your app, but that's okay. If your scenario is anything like mine was, you'll have a steady (albeit much smaller) stream of traffic to your site from now on.
- Is your signup process as frictionless as possible?
- Are you collecting email addresses (for a newsletter or followup emails– Twitter does a great job of this with their "We notice you haven't posted anything lately" emails)?
- You now have some users. Get in touch with them and find out how it falls short!
Specifically, I have a lot of goals I'd like to achieve, but I don't have any compromising pictures of myself. I also don't like the idea of apps posting on Facebook on my behalf.
Congratulations and good luck!