We (unexpectedly) got 60K users in 60 hours - What we learned

Re:We (unexpectedly) got 60K users in 60 hours - What we lea... by osxwm on Thursday July 12, 2012 @02:56PM (#4236066)

>The signups from foreign publications were pretty bad. They signed up for free at high rates, but they just don't pay (.5%). Not entirely sure why, but until we figure it out, we put people from those places on a wait list

Do you have international friendly payment methods? Regionally tiered pricing? And what do you mean by, "we put people from those places on a wait list"?

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Re:We (unexpectedly) got 60K users in 60 hours - What we lea... by patrickambron on Thursday July 12, 2012 @03:43PM (#4236347)

Right now we use braintree to process payments. They accept all major credit cards, in all countries. It keeps it simple on our end, but if someone in, say Brazil, doesn't use a major credit card, then we can't accept their payment.

It's quite possible that in many countries, it's a small percentage of people who use cc. Anybody know any specific info or data on this?

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Re:We (unexpectedly) got 60K users in 60 hours - What we lea... by patrickambron on Thursday July 12, 2012 @03:56PM (#4236416)

What do you mean by regionally tiered pricing? Right now all pricing is in USD which could be another reason for the drop off. Does anybody have experience with this type of thing?

PS-certain countries are put on an invite list so they can't sign up right now. It tells them to sign up to get on the waiting list

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Re:We (unexpectedly) got 60K users in 60 hours - What we lea... by hasanove on Thursday July 12, 2012 @05:23PM (#4236915)

So, any way for legitimately interested people from banned countries to sign up other than waiting?

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