Tim Fargo
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And I didn't start out with the idea of, wow, this is going to be great for the world.
I started out with, you know, I'm sick of doing this and I want something to fix it for me.
Yeah, I mean, I pick up probably about 400 to 500 new people every day.
Right now, we've got about 16,000 users.
And I guess yesterday, as an example, we had just over 150,000 tweets go out yesterday.
Yeah, I mean, we have a ton of traffic going out.
And we're actually, today is, interestingly enough, today, because we started out, it was funny, we started out with this, like, what we thought was going to be this, like, smoking server, right?
You know, because we're like, hey, we're going to get some people, and then we'll need all this iron.
Yeah.
So anyhow, but you know, we're thinking like a couple thousand people will show up.
And so anyhow, today we're cutting over to Amazon Web Services, so, because we can't scale in the environment we're in, so we're moving.
None of them have become a paying customer because they don't have that option yet.
I mean, from the beginning, there's a couple things.
I think if you're launching, I mean, we did a free model, and let me explain why, because I think this is also important for people that have a relatively new idea that they want to have a subscription model for at some point, but...
If the idea is fairly new, you've got a couple challenges because now you've got to explain what you're doing and how it will benefit people and then ask for money too.
And that's a lot to ask.
I mean, that's a big ask unless you've got a real โ
Awesome problem solver.
But if you let people try something over time and have a fairly long enough trial period that people can kind of get in and really experience it.
And we wanted to knock the kinks out as well.