Built this on a Friday night - 5 days later, ~73k users
Tldr; I built 3 different applications, each of which took months to build and they never gained traction. Last week, built a simple form to tackle a very specific use case and the usage shot up.
Last couple of weeks my friends were constantly talking about the H1B lottery results and scrolling the r/h1b searching for comments from people who got selected.
Friday night I decided to create a simple website that would scrap reddit comments and create a dashboard to track the h1b status.
Reddit blocked anything trying to scrap comments so I thought, well, why not just make it crowd sourced - so I added a small form (3 fields only) and a dashboard and put that as comments in a few subreddits at 11:50pm EST, Friday.
By Saturday morning, it reached 2k users and as of today, it has more than 50k users.
I literally got teary eyed by looking at more than 10 users on my app.
I am thinking of ways to retain this traction but all to say, don’t give up on building.
Some day, something will definitely click.
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Website: h1bpulse.com