Ask HN: How did you convert a million users to your service? 2 points by nessence 15y ago ↗ HN Did you do anything illegal or unethical? Advertising? Hacks?Assuming there are HN/YC'ers with million+ users.
[–] mechanical_fish 15y ago ↗ One user at a time.I haven't built anything solo with 1 million users, but I'm one of the 600,000+ people who helped build this:http://drupal.org/home...and it was done one user at a time, over a decade, nothing unethical, not much advertising beyond word of mouth. Lots of hacks, though!
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[ 0.26 ms ] story [ 6.9 ms ] threadI haven't built anything solo with 1 million users, but I'm one of the 600,000+ people who helped build this:
http://drupal.org/home
...and it was done one user at a time, over a decade, nothing unethical, not much advertising beyond word of mouth. Lots of hacks, though!