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		hoorayimhelping on May 25, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How the biggest consumer apps got their first 1k u... >Below, you’ll find first-hand accounts of how essentially every major consumer app acquired their earliest users Did anyone follow through on the links? Some of these "first-hand accounts" just redirect back to this guy's blog, some of them are just blurbs from other media. I looked at the Etsy one and it's a story by an economist with no first hand accounts by anyone at Etsy.

Cthulhu_ on May 25, 2020 | [–]

Is the author actually using some of the tricks described in other comments here to gain traction?

jeffbee on May 25, 2020 | [–]

This definition of "essentially every" is also extremely flimsy.

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