I submitted FormSpring for review to Emily Chang’s eHub blog yesterday, she posted it around 2:30am and the site’s been buzzing ever since. There’ve been some moments when I got several users sign up for a demo account per minute. I was somewhat pleased with the trickle I was getting before now, but traffic today has surpassed all the other days in March combined. That’s great news.
From eHub, the buzz has spread to a number of social bookmarking sites and smaller blogs. It feels good to see your site on del.icio.us/popular.
I’m most surprised at the number of non-English speaking blogs that I’ve seen link to FormSpring. I’ve picked up on Spanish, Italian, Danish and Arabic (?) so far. I’m really going to need to do some hardcore testing on my Unicode support soon.
By the way, if you use any of these bookmarking sites and want to tag FormSpring, then here are some links you can use: 
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4 responses so far ↓
1 Ian // Mar 25, 2006 at 8:29 am
That’s pretty cool… did you have to push any buzzwords to get your site to list? (I don’t know much about del.ico.us)
I’d be interested to hear how our mutual web host is handling this. http://forums.dathorn.com/showthread.php?t=2139
2 ade // Mar 25, 2006 at 11:22 am
When I submitted to Emily’s site I just gave the short description that’s pretty much what she listed there (http://www.emilychang.com/go/ehub/formspring).
del.ico.us is a site where you can store and share website bookmarks. The popular page shows the most frequently bookmarked sites within a short timeframe. So basically nobody controls the popular page — it’s just created based on who’s adding sites.
Our mutual web host is NOT handling it. FormSpring’s running on a dedicated server. Thanks for pointing out that thread (I really should follow the forums more). I had about a dozen solid reasons why I wanted a dedicated server for FormSpring, and this added a few more to my list.
Interestingly, I had a support ticket in yesterday which resulted in a very frustrating dialogue with Andrew. I might share more later in the form of a new blog entry.
3 Ian // Apr 1, 2006 at 10:42 am
We could probably dedicate a whole blog to Andrew’s people-skills… but I doubt that would be in our best interest
4 Recursive Function » Blog Archive » The first month // Apr 6, 2006 at 1:21 pm
[...] It’s still way too early to see how FormSpring will do in the long term, but I’m pleased with how things have gone so far. I set the very modest goal for the first month to acquire one paid customer that I didn’t know personally, and met that pretty quickly. Traffic is still holding steady since the buzz a couple weeks ago, and new accounts (not necessarily paid) are being created daily. [...]
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