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Ask HN: 100,000 requests two days after release. What next?

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I wrote a simple Chrome extension, Instant Music, and released in Korea last week. After I posted about in one of popular Facebook pages it started to go viral and it reached 100,000 requests/day just after the couple of days I had first released it. People's reponses were absolutely fantastic which I had not anticipated at all. I would like to introduce it to more users in other countries than Korea now to see if they find it useful too. What should be my first step? Thank you.

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* Get a site/blog up and link to it from the Chrome extension page.

* Extensions are hard to monetize - frictionless affiliate links and donations.

* Post it on social networks, make a press release and forward it to famous blogs citing the Korean viral effect it's had.

Nice! Thanks, hackerboos.

I set up a site http://instantmusicapp.com already and what you mentioned are exactly what I want to do, but don't know how. It went viral on both Facebook and Twitter in Korea, but not sure how I should make it happen in other countries too.

In addition to setting up a site/blog, immediately setup an email list that you send out updates to. You can then potentially offer a 'Pro' version of this extension and you will already have thousands (if not 10s of thousands) of potential customers.

That's a great idea actually. However, I think I am not allowed to monetize from it because of youtube's terms of service. For now, I just want as many people as possible to use this little extension and give me feedbacks. I am just happy to serve other people's needs of listening to music :)

Is this the extension?

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/instant-music/eheb...

Yes. Haha thanks for finding it. How do you think about it?

What is the source of this music? Is the music pulled from youtube or Soundcloud?

YouTube for now!

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