Friends for Sale Architecture - A 300 Million Page View/Month Facebook RoR App

http://highscalability.com/friends-sale-architecture-300-million-page-view-month-facebook-ror-app

by chaostheory • 18 years ago

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wallflower2• 18 years ago

It's a toy application on a real infrastructure. Wait until developers start writing some real value-adding/lifestyle Facebook apps. Real Facebook applications will intermediate between users without requiring their direct input (think Personal Assistants). That being said, 300M page views/month is something most indie developers would sell their friends for - though it might be a bit embarassing that it's such a LCD app.

konsl• 18 years ago

I wouldn't expect to see value-adding apps too soon... unless FB is willing to make some significant changes to their platform. There's simply no incentive to make them right now -- virality continues to be the main criterion for app success.

ivankirigin2• 18 years ago

The #1 value added app for lots of people, whether they know it or not, is exportability insurance. Make an app that tracks everything externally so that if Facebook starts to suck, you can migrate the next platform.

The existence of that portability might actually ensure things never start sucking.

henning• 18 years ago

If and when that time comes I'll consider using Facebook.

Until then, I don't care that, e.g., Joey H. who I took 9th grade English with is totally stressed out about finals or whatever.

myoung8• 18 years ago

What do you guys think is a "reasonable CPM"? $0.001? $0.01? $0.05?

mercurio2• 18 years ago

I think those are too low. At $0.05 CPM, 300 million page views would earn just $15000 a month. I doubt that that many pages could be served for a few thousand dollars. Look at their hardware and bandwidth costs and work out what a profitable CPM would be from there.

Raphael2• 18 years ago

3E8 * .05 = 15 million, not 15000

immad• 18 years ago

absolute minimum would be $.5

michaelneale• 18 years ago

It this a type of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharecropping

whacked_new• 18 years ago

Great to see this float to the front page. blader announced their launch right here on news.yc: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=74993

That said, is this YC-funded?

Friends for Sale Architecture - A 300 Million Page View/Month Facebook RoR App

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