Story of Splendid Bacon and stuff you might do

after launchAntti Akonniemi

Rails Rumble

48 hours, few hundred teams

We need a good name for the app

Bacon is good

Splendid!Splendid!Splendid!

Splendid Bacon!

But what does Splendid Bacon do?

Project Management for Hackers

Ton of feature ideas filtered to

Show me who’s doing what

Initial architecture design before the competition

In real life: Talked for an hour about stuff

Karri draw some wireframes

3, 2, 1.. Go!

After giving 4 hour head start to others..

Day one: functionality

Day two: UI

Stats

• First 18 hours: 10 000 visitors

• 9000 users

• 48 hours, 49 espressos, 2 kilos of bacon

• Now ~ 700 active weekly users

• Ton of tweets, 100 comments in Hacker News, tens of blog posts

Site launched - Now what?

Tell everyone about it

Contact bloggers, companies..

.. and ask help from Christina

Crush It (respond to every contact)

Listen to your users

But don’t trust their opinions

Evolve

Change the world and enjoy the ride

antti@kiskolabs.com

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