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Show HN: My super-viral threewords.me clone

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The following HN post prompted me to make this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2168220

I have created http://onememory.me

Alright, so it's not super-viral. It has been online for about 3 hours, so far. I made two or three tweets about it, and posted it on my Facebook wall.

Within the three hours, I've seen ~200 unique visitors and had only 31 of them register. A very large percentage of that traffic all came from Twitter. Not many people seem to be sharing their URLs by way of my "tweet this" or facebook share buttons, though. I'll be making those more prominent soon.

It's a similar concept, but instead of describing people in 3 words, you just share a memory that you have about them with them. After reviewing some of the data coming in, I'm not sure if that concept is made very obvious by my wording on the site. Many people left their memories of themselves on my page. Haha.

Anyways, just thought I'd try this out and make one. Maybe it'll go super viral, too! (nobody I ask in person has ever heard of threewords.me, so it may be a new thing in my area)

It might become more viral if you allow people to write the memory immediately then have them create an account afterwards?

They can. An account is not required, or even used, when you write a memory about somebody.

Clickable: http://onememory.me/

My page: http://onememory.me/ryancole

to be fair 31 users out of 200 visitors doesn't sound like a bad conversion rate. Reckon it would be better with fewer required options (I kind of understand why you need a display name and login name, but it would be better if it was the same thing)

Facebook Connect as a login option would lower the barriers to entry for new users willing to use it as well as increase the virality.

I'll work on adding the Facebook Connect login option tonight.

clean design, good hack. but what tangible value does it provide?

Well, for me, it provides a way of experiencing things like having to respond to user feedback, traffic spikes, thinking about user experience and trying to influence my conversion rates. It's an opportunity to use things like analytics funnels, and such. Most of these things can't be done without one thing - users using your site. These types of sites are fun ways to potentially get to deal with that. As developers, it's easy to think of things functionally. To us, it's obvious why something would be useful based on its function. But, to the average non-technical user, it takes some extra thought into how can you explain something to them in a way that allows them to understand your service and why it'd be useful to them.

I kind of rambled there, but it's a fun technical thing. For users, it's purely just for fun. I think this might be something people wouldn't mind knowing if they had the opportunity, so that kind of helps drive the want to use it.

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