I’ve posted about being hot one second, and then not for the rest of eternity, and just want to dredge up this example again:
slowly dropping until irrelevant.
Just a lesson – just because something is cool/hot for a while doesn’t mean you’ve built anything sustainable/long-lasting. Frappr was cool, and spread like fire, but once people realized that it wasn’t really useful, they dropped it.
A burst of activity is good, but you really need to take a long hard look on why your website will be popular 18 months from today.
1 Response to And the downward spiral continues …
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October 19th, 2007 at 10:27 am
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