2 hour side-project to 2 million visitors

http://blog.gramfeed.com/post/18460554119/2-hour-side-project-to-2-million-visitors

by krisrak • 14 years ago

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keeptrying• 14 years ago

Has the author of this app tried to monetize this?

krisrak4• 14 years ago

Yes, it is monetized by Ads and affiliate programs from photo printing companies

mmx• 14 years ago

Your other projects are impressive as well, are you a one man team for all of them? Also thanks for the insight, this info isn't commonly shared with other startups, I appreciate it.

hello_moto3• 14 years ago

Sorry to hi-jack the thread but I have a few AppEngine questions for you:

1) I don't understand their pricing scheme, does gamfeed use the free or the paid? (because currently I'm seeing 2 price lists: http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/billing.html and http://www.google.com/enterprise/cloud/appengine/pricing.htm...)

2) AppEngine Datastore: have you ever need to modify your model in a way you have to run a transaction over a large number of rows? If yes, would that hurt? (or, another case is if you had encountered a bug in your code that mistakenly recorded the wrong data thus you have to "clean them all").

3) I saw your code regarding code optimization, would that cause the code to become a bit brittle by not encapsulating the caching somehow? Like, spreading the cache at various level in your code.

Thanks!

rhizome• 14 years ago

NB: titlewise, the latter is being measured a year after the former was launched.

hello_moto3• 14 years ago

This is how you get traffic by the way. News website use this trick all the time.

shingen• 14 years ago

I'm surprised Instagram hasn't swooped in and purchased it to acquire the developer (talent acquisition). Obviously @krisrak has a tremendous grasp of the platform.

NameNickHN• 14 years ago

Hardly a 2 hour side-project but, nevertheless, impressive.

2 hour side-project to 2 million visitors

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