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How (Notion) got its first users?
Unicorn WarriorBrainiac How Notion got its first users? Ivan Zhao and Simon Last iterated a few times before coming up with the appropriate version of Notion.Their first, no-code version of the app, kept crashing and died after 2 years.Later, Ivan asked his mother to lend him $150,000 to fund Notion 1.0. It was an all-in-one…
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How (Gumroad) got its first users?
Unicorn WarriorBrainiac How 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 Photoshop. He made a pencil icon for another app.He didn’t finish that app. He thought that he could still make money on the icon because…
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How (Ahrefs) got its first customers?
Unicorn WarriorBrainiac How Ahrefs got its first customers? The founder, Dmytro Gerasymenko, set up his first simple online database of links when he was still at school, but he lost all of that due to a server crash. He didn’t back up.He started it all over again after a few years. Site Audit was Ahrefs’…
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How (Zapier) got its first users
Unicorn WarriorBrainiac How Zapier got its first users? Zapier Beta was full of bugs. The initial prototype was built within 54 hours at Startup Weekend in Columbia.Wade Foster, Bryan Helming, and Mike Knoop needed people to test their software and give them feedback. Foster went to online tech forums and looked for people interested in…
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How (Discord) got its first users?
Unicorn WarriorBrainiac How 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 wanted to build something for better and smoother social connections between players. One good thing about Citron’s games was their chatting systems. The guys decided…
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How (YouTube) got its first users?
Unicorn WarriorBrainiac How 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 videos for dating purposes. They wanted to share a video, but they couldn’t find an appropriate place for it on the Internet. A dating YouTube…
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