I wrote this on the blog post a good while ago, but it is still "awaiting moderation"
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I’m co-Founder of Tipjoy. We’re very much alive and well, and about to release some very exciting new features. You will hear more about them soon. We’re hiring, raising money, getting new office space, and still working hard to make the service better.
The use of Tipjoy has been consistently growing, and we expect this to accelerate. Just as you said yourself, it takes more than a few months for a product to become huge. It’s an iterative process where we listen and learn from our users and continually add new features for them.
We too believe in the social side of tipping. We’ve made it easy to see who else has tipping something, and see everything they’ve tipped. This is all syndicated with RSS. You can see the tips I’ve given here: http://tipjoy.com/userstream/ivankirigin/
The social side of the site is going to become much more interesting, especially as we add plugins to social networks so you can track what your friends are tipping on the sites you’re using most.
I'm not sure what "taking off" means, but if I launched a site a few months ago and already had 80k+ visitors a month in the US(compete.com--so I'm sure it's higher), I'd be feeling pretty good :).
We do feel very good about where we are. But in the spirit of openness, compete is probably measuring the Tipjoy button embedded in other sites -- not all visits to tipjoy.com
They are indeed off by quite a bit (on the very low side) on even measuring this.
The graph on compete does look pretty good though.
I'm not sure compete figures are very useful at all to be honest. I know everyone bashes alexa, but their numbers are actually usually closer to the truth than compete. Quantcast seem reasonable also.
Yes, sorry about that. I just realized it. My bad. My host didn't like the embedded links... (Thanks all you Viagra sellers out there...) Anyhow, sounds like ya'll are on the right track. Best of luck! I'm excited to see where this will go.
--Jeff
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I’m co-Founder of Tipjoy. We’re very much alive and well, and about to release some very exciting new features. You will hear more about them soon. We’re hiring, raising money, getting new office space, and still working hard to make the service better.
The use of Tipjoy has been consistently growing, and we expect this to accelerate. Just as you said yourself, it takes more than a few months for a product to become huge. It’s an iterative process where we listen and learn from our users and continually add new features for them.
We too believe in the social side of tipping. We’ve made it easy to see who else has tipping something, and see everything they’ve tipped. This is all syndicated with RSS. You can see the tips I’ve given here: http://tipjoy.com/userstream/ivankirigin/
If you want to make your tipping public, change your settings here: http://tipjoy.com/settings/
The social side of the site is going to become much more interesting, especially as we add plugins to social networks so you can track what your friends are tipping on the sites you’re using most.