Akshell: The HN Effect and Our Accidental Launch

Congrats guys! Now that the hump is over, what are the traffic levels like?

In 'What went wrong' you imply that you didn't do enough to capture user info but in 'What went right' you say you kept the barriers low by not requiring registration. In hindsight, which of those was the bigger deal?

We got about 1K uniques today before this post. So far we've seen 800 uniques on top of that, with 80+ users concurrently online. This is likely to drop off, as we are no longer on the home page, so the lesson here is that accidental launches are better than planned relaunches.

To answer your other question: ideally I think we should have gone for a user experience whereby we let users try the service out without registration, but prompt them to save their work by registering when they try to leave.

I always enjoy these types of posts! I think its very beneficial for those who are preparing for their own launch (or to just improve in general).

Excellent work guys! Thanks for sharing your experiences I'm sure (and hope!) they will benefit many of us here :)

great work guys!

Very interesting platform. Congratulations!

Oops! In a good way!

Useful platform)

Great stuff!