CSS Pivot - From idea to 20k hits in 7 days

http://blog.csspivot.com/post/4287812137/summary-of-launching-the-prototype

by metachris • 15 years ago

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jarin• 15 years ago

Man, well done. Very well done.

Just a quick suggestion: I think having "Discover Pivots" on a separate Reddit- or HN-style ranking page might be better than having a bunch of popup windows.

hajrice2• 15 years ago

+1 on that! Another suggestion: Is it possible to make private posts?

metachris6• 15 years ago

Great idea -- will add that today or tomorrow!

metachris6• 15 years ago

Thank you! Yeah I know, the UI for discovering pivots is very early -- there is just so much to do and we were busy refining the pivot view first. We are definitely thinking about a concept for the homepage, possibly with snapshots of how the pivot looks. Will come next week!

hajrice2• 15 years ago

Very very well done. I'd be interested in hearing more about this. Best of luck to you!

minalecs• 15 years ago

what did you do to in terms of marketing to get to 20k users? I think the site is good.

metachris6• 15 years ago

The only marketing so far was to post it to HN and Forrst, and at a usually bad time too (Saturday evening). But people upvoted it a lot and it was #1 almost all Sunday: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2373785

ElbertF• 15 years ago

Any front page link on HN, Reddit or StumbleUpon will get around that number of hits, no marketing required. One of my sites received nearly a million hits last month from social networks without any advertising.

bretthopper• 15 years ago

I'm liking the potential of these ideas:

"extending the use-szenarious (eg inviting friends to share pivots for your own website), showing a tree of pivots with their forks and ancestors"

It would be really useful to see a history of versions and easily toggle between them.

metachris6• 15 years ago

Will be added in a few days! So large of an idea backlog...

ericb• 15 years ago

Is there a way to specify the "license" for the pivot code? This might be handy--sites could take free improvements if they want--if a devoted user wanted to improve a site they dearly loved.

Additionally, you could let people sell pivots right on the site. I'm sure you're thinking of these things, though.

metachris6• 15 years ago

Very interesting idea -- we will definitely think about it!

Alex3917• 15 years ago

I like these posts a few times a year, but do we really need a post like this every couple days? We get it, articles that make the front page of HN get some page views. How is this any different than the other twenty virtually identical posts that have been on the front page in the last month?

metachris6• 15 years ago

This post may not be very different from the other similar posts, but I personally do enjoy reading about new useful projects and the impact of hitting the frontpage of HN, which is why I submitted it.

baby• 15 years ago

I couldn't agree more. You got 20k visitors in 7 days? Nothing to get excited about. Especially since most of your visitors must come from HN and that you might struggle to get that many visitors in the coming weeks. If you get the same amounts, ore more. Then write about it.

xigit• 15 years ago

you should make browser extensions, so user can save their customized css then used as user style sheet on their browser and can share with friends.

MadWombat• 15 years ago

This is an interesting project, but how do you intend to monetize this traffic? I do not see any ads, do you intend to have payed accounts?

CSS Pivot - From idea to 20k hits in 7 days

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