Hacker News Love
The launch yesterday went great! We posted up on Hacker News, asking for our fellow hackers to review Flooha. We recieved a great majority of positive comments and a few that were fantastic. The only negativity came from the “kick-ass” part of our tag-line. We’re not in a hurry to change it since we think Flooha is pretty damn kick-ass and, although we are 100% serious about our business, we still want to inject a little light-heartedness into our business.
For those of you considering a “Review my app” post on HN, here are some results from our little experiment.
In the 24 hour period after the post we received:
- 1698 unique hits
- 7102 page views
- 917 uniques who only looked at the index page. (1 page view)
- 117 uniques with > 10 page views.
- 29 registered users
- 24 packages built
- 17 custom websites created
- 214 YouTube views (video tour)
- 1 application error*
- 0 melted web servers
* The user started a project, opened a new tab, deleted the project in tab2 and then tried to build it in tab1. We’re going to call that a “User Error” LOL We did add some code to handle it better though.
Not bad for day 1! It’s funny how some users seem to have registered just to grab an interesting name, most notably “heaven” and “earth”. We hope that Flooha can be a small slice of heaven and earth for some people. 
For those of you out there who want to grab a cool name before someone else does, you better hurry up!
We’ll be trying to get some more coverage this week from various startup websites and bloggers, so please digg us or stumble us or use whatever means you have to get the word out. If you like to get notified when our Premium Web Hosting Accounts are available, you can sign up for our waiting list here. Thanks for all the interest and well wishes.
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