Favorite.me one month (and it’s all over)

May 27th, 2007 • Related • Filed Under

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It has been exactly one month since I launched favorite.me and I have had 107 users and over 2000 favorites given out since it started. Because favorite exchanges have fallen out of favor I have decided to close down the site. I will for at least 2 months leave the front page which I have now changed to include links to all those who took part ranked in order of how many favorites they gave out.

Statistics
I thought I would also reveal some of the statistics (from Google Analytics). The diagram below shows the overall traffic for the month.

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These two show that although we only had 475 visitors most of them used the site for around 12 minutes.

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Lastly I would like to thank everyone who took part in this little programming experiment and hope everyone got something out of it.

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  1. Comment by Tay on 28 May 2007:

    I was a member of your site it was practically impossible to use and it drove me away. Everytime I clicked to favorite someone else, it would make me go to Technorati and sign in, but once I signed it, I never let me favorite the person. So I’d go to Technorati and manually do it myself, but your site didn’t recognize this, so I got nothing for the favorites I gave.

    Then a week later I went to sign back on, but there was nowhere to log in! I couldn’t view who needed to be favorited and I couldn’t find any place to log in at. It was just nearly impossible. I think if you want people to use your site, you’ve got to make it usable. I thought it had great potential if only would work.

  2. Comment by Douglas Karr on 28 May 2007:

    Don’t let this stop you from the next idea! People who fail fantastically have something in common with those who succeed …. they’re usually the same people.

    I’ll be standing by to see the next innovation!

    Regards,
    Doug

  3. Comment by Nick Halstead on 28 May 2007:

    Tay, I am sorry you one of the few who had problems using the site. I took a major decision right at the outset to only use cookies to remember users. In hindsight this was a bad decision, but I originally made it based upon.

    1. I wanted to complete the whole site in one day.
    2. I wanted it to be immediately accessible.

    Within 1 day I came to several further conclusions.

    1. A small percentage of people were having problems losing cookies
    2. The timescales for further improving the site (2 days) were not justified vs the potential gains.

    As with Dosh Dosh what I gained from the site was the interest in the concept rather than in the product itself. I got probably 10x the traffic to my posts about writing the site than to the site itself.

    Doug, many thanks for the support. I certainly wont let this hold me back and there was lots to learn from this one.

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