Two Years of Pinboard
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Srsly though, thanks maciej and team, love pinboard and use it e'erday. It's pretty much second nature to highlight, right-click, 'Post Page to Pinboard', fill some pithy tags, and feel instant dopamine flood of peace for some reason. Great when I have that one site on the tip of my cerebellum that I can just grep through pinboard for. Way to go on the 2 years and coming years of success.
Bit of a blast from the past here, but I want to thank you for some unintentional inspiration you gave me 6 years ago when Steve & I launched reddit. You see, I've always kept a "wall of negative reinforcement" (basically negative commentary that I print out and stick on the wall) that I find quite inspiring.
You deleted the post, but "Y Combinator’s 2005 Summer Founders Program: A Complete Dud" was one of the things that always gave me a boost during some of reddit's darker days.
http://web.archive.org/web/20050813233842/http://tech.rufy.c...
It may sound ridiculous, but I really do appreciate it. I've been fortunate to have had immensely supportive people in my life - namely my parents - yet I've always relished criticism & negative feedback (maybe it's from growing up with a girl's name?) as motivation to push myself harder to better both my work and myself. Thank you.
One would expect just a little humility: http://www.google.com/trends?q=reddit%2C+pinboard
The post is an interesting specimen, though. Presumably the first harangue ever written about YC (avant la lettre!), and covers many of the bases, including you-call-that-a-startup-I-could-have-written-that-over-the-weekend and you'll-never-make-a-business-out-of-it.
The post you cite seems to be by some guy named Lucas?
Back then I was actively monitoring the delicious bookmark for reddit.com and your note had made me chuckle.
Otoh, that was only 20-ish days of growth when I left yahoo...
With Maciej it's pretty much drop an email to the mailing list, and if the request is reasonable enough, BAM, it's there!
It was more like the experience with inboard in the early days.
The current price is $9.37 which indicates 9370 users, yet this post says 12,500 active. But if the first customer was $2.04, is it $2.04 + u * 0.001? So meaning $9.37 reflects 7330 users? Sorry for picking through the math but I'm interested in stuff like this :-) Did a big group of users get in free during a certain period, etc?
It's a beautiful business model in a way. It doesn't suit people who want to trial it out but the social proof of 12,000 people already being through the doors makes the $9 more palatable to latecomers. I'm wondering if I could apply a similar model to my e-mail newsletters (which people keep saying I should charge for).
Very awesome service.
It would be useful if you wrote beside the current figures Tue percentage change on last year.
It also struck me that linking the price to a growth factor may end up overpricing your service leading to a halt in signups. Is this the case or not?
I am not worried about overpricing the site as long as I think the signup fee represents good value for new users.
I wish more people would signup - since that would assure long term stability/security of my bookmark archive.
And GZ on your birthday Pinboard!
It's 2011, high-RAM servers should be available for reasonable prices.