How Tinder got its first users

Amazing Product, App, First 1,000 Customers, Guerilla Marketing, Low-budget, Network Effect, Viral Stunts

Unicorn WarriorBrainiacHow Tinder got its first usersTinder was once named “Matchbox,” but the name was changed to “Tinder” because it sounded better and made people think of fire

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How (Loom) got its first users?

First 1,000 Customers, Launch, Low-budget, Network Effect

Unicorn WarriorBrainiacHow Loom got its first users?Loom’s MVP was called Openvid, but before that, the founder pivoted twice.First, there was Opentest. It was a video tool that allowed

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How (Twitter) got its first users?

App, First 1,000 Customers, Launch, Network Effect, Social Media

Unicorn WarriorBrainiacHow Twitter got its first users?Twitter started as twttr. It was a text messages broadcasting app by people from Odeo.Odeo was Noah Glass' podcast platform. When Apple

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How (Zoom) got its first users?

First 1,000 Customers, Network Effect, Piggybacking on Trend, SaaS

Unicorn WarriorBrainiacHow Zoom got its first users?Zoom was founded by Eric Yuan, a former WebEx worker at Cisco, which was a platform for video conferences.Customers of the company

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How (Gumroad) got its first users?

First 1,000 Customers, Low-budget, Network Effect, SaaS

Unicorn WarriorBrainiacHow Gumroad got its first users?Sahil Lavingia, a teenager from Palo Alto has designed a few apps before. They weren’t successful. Soon, he started playing around with

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How (Telegram) got its first users?

App, First 1,000 Customers, Low-budget, Network Effect, Social Media

Unicorn WarriorBrainiacHow Telegram got its first users?Telegram is the creation of Pavel and Nikolai Durovs. The brothers' previous project was VKontakte, a Russian counterpart of Facebook.Telegram is the

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How (Discord) got its first users?

Community, First 1,000 Customers, Network Effect, Social Media

Unicorn WarriorBrainiacHow Discord got its first users?Jason Citron and Stan Vishnevskiy loved video games. Citron had been making games, but they weren't popular enough. Together with Vishnevskiy, they

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How (YouTube) got its first users?

Amazing Product, First 1,000 Customers, Network Effect, Social Media

Unicorn WarriorBrainiacHow YouTube got its first users?Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim, the Youtube founders, had all been former PayPal employees.YouTube started as a platform for sharing

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First 1,000 Customers, Network Effect, Social Media, Viral Features

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Community, First 1,000 Customers, Network Effect, SaaS

GitHub - how the code hosting giant worth $2B+ got its first 1000+ users (13 min read)GitHub - an Internet code hosting provider for software development and collaborationStrategy

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