1st hand experience with viral growth - iRead

[mekin]

On June 6th I had posted about iRead. We had just about launched the application then & we were at a few hundred users.
As of now iRead has 25k users!
So if I dont make much sense below, please bear with me - I am still in shock & euphoria :)

Its been an amazing week. When we started we had a competitor with a lead of about 5000 users growing quite

Comments

[harish]

hey, that's cool !
You must write up how you went about the whole process, it would be fascinating to read. Starting from the APIs being made available.

Will look forward to it. Congrats.

[mekin]

Welcome back sir ....

long long time ...
for a moment I thought that was 1 of my founders - also named Harish & you look a lot like him in that photo.

:)
Hows life.

Will post more details ... right now busy writing code :)
This blog was a good break

[oldpondfrog]

Good job! At times i envy you and your creed of application programmers!
So you were doing this on your own time?
BTW how's the ugenie experience going?

[mekin]

Both :) (ugenie & my time)
For the 1st week it was 18 hour days :) (The app is listed as "by uGenie")

Ugenie has been a good experience - not that all the things I experienced are good, but I've definitely learnt a lot.
More on chat sometime ...

[mrinal]

The steepness of the iRead line at the end is amazing! Truly viral indeed!

[mrinal]

Oh, I forgot that the x axis doesn't truly represent time. But great job anyway! I'm sure 25K is just the beginning..

[mekin]

Yes ... we did see a big jump in the last 3 days.

I'm sure 25K is just the beginning..
Amen :)

[priyatam]

Although I'm not a fan of your app, I sure can envisage others who might be. Congrats and all the best for keeping up the next versions of iRead!

[mekin]

Thanks!

Great stuff!

[vinay_ks]

Great stuff dude! You are one amazing person!:-)