I just finished my very first application on Facebook last night, and wow was it quite the experience.
I noticed that nobody else had built and successfully launched an app that allowed you to have songs on your profile because of bandwidth and storage problems I guess.
I decided to give it a shot and created SongBook!
It’s been only a few hours, and already I’m seeing a fantastic response! Already over 150 users have signed onto the application and uploaded songs to their profiles! I didn’t expect it to have such a fantastic growth rate, but it’s really getting out of control. My used bandwidth nearly doubles by the end of the day (running up a few GB’s per day!) so I’m not really sure what to do because I’m expecting a few millions users to add the app.
Take a look for yourself, and please, add it if you have a Facebook profile. Not that I have to ask you to add it, it’s already pretty amazing :p
If you know of any lovely company that would like a nice fat ad spot right on the home page of the app (projected to have a few million views, daily/weekly?) and would like to sponsor me, PLEASE let me know!
Thanks!!
re: your bandiwdth concerns: I hear Amazon’s EC2 is good for scaling… you only pay for the bandwidth used, and the rates are good
Hi,
Marc Andreesen had a blogpost describing the ‘problems’ of too much users when a company launched a facebook-app. Look for it at blog.pmarca.com. Congratulations!
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