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tawrahim··on Show HN: I gained 50k users for my app with NO marketing
Fair and thanks for the valuable feedback! I will make sure to post again following the guideline that you outlined
tawrahim··on Show HN: I gained 50k users for my app with NO marketing
Author here, as I mentioned in my post it was nothing but pure luck and building something that the community wanted but never had. I wish I had answers for you. Been an active hacker news reader for a long time and the last thing I would do is to spam a community where I get valuable tech news.

Not sure why this was flagged but I am happy to provide video evidence and even show it live on a call if that makes you feel at ease

tawrahim··on Show HN: I gained 50k users for my app with NO marketing
I am happy to share screenshots or recorded video if that makes you feel at ease
tawrahim··on Show HN: I gained 50k users for my app with NO marketing
Author here -- for sure was not expecting this amount of feedback. To be honest as I did not do anything special to gain that traction as I mentioned in my post. A community of fantasy league picked it up and started creating links with it and sharing their payment page via facebook which eventually led more and more people to see it.
tawrahim··on Show HN: I built an app to make it easy for anyone to get paid
Exactly! The average american has more than one payment app on their phone
tawrahim··on Show HN: I built an app to make it easy for anyone to get paid
author here! I built it selfishly because each time someone comes to my house to do work (cut grass, clean, barber, handy man, etc..) I am always asking the question - "what payment app can I pay you with?" If they have a paylinkz URL I can simply just pick whatever is convenient for me and pay them via it.

I'd also mention that since launching the app, I have see the users span from basketball coaches, non-profits to side hustlers.

You might want to read my full reasoning here https://paylinkz.app/about

tawrahim··on Show HN: I made an app for all your payment links
Great thank you! Will fix them
tawrahim··on Waze Carpool
I spent about 3 months in Europe and I was totally amazed with the efficiency of BlaBlaCar! That actually ended up inspiring me to work on http://www.thetripbuddyapp.com/ - To be honest I wished transportation in the US was as efficient as Europe.
tawrahim··on Waze Carpool
You might want to give http://www.thetripbuddyapp.com/ a try! They are in the Boston area
tawrahim··on How I hacked a gmail account
@Author here - value is that don't commit sensitive data like email and password into your public github repo. Consider using an ENV variable
tawrahim··on How I hacked a gmail account
To the left, click on code and you are going to see all the results
tawrahim··on Facebook is closing Parse
So what happens to the parse credits? Do we get the money back?
tawrahim··on Faker.js – generate fake data in the browser and Node
This looks interesting and very useful. However my only question is what is the license of those generated avatar?
tawrahim··on Twitter-text: libraries for identifying URLs, at mentions, hashtags in text
I wrote a hashtag extractor for a project am working but I have to admit that I am particularly impressed with the robustness of the regex! I am definitely going to use some aspects of this code.
tawrahim··on Brisket – A new single-page application framework
What a joke! Whats wrong with using those dependencies by themselves? YAJSL (Yet Another JS Library)