Hey, George here! Being a developer I always wondered how other startups attract traffic. How long it takes to build up a substantial stream of visitors, and how those visitors convert. Or even how many visitors one gets by making a front page of Hacker News. That's why I built Tractionbeat, a place where founders can share and annotate traffic charts of their startups. I hope this will help a lot of talented developers and designers see how others managed to build up traffic over time and that giving up because of lack of initial traction is not justified. So far, there are 15 sites and apps on Tractionbeat and all of them give us extremely valuable information. Check out Headway, a SaaS that is now getting thousands of daily visitors. Or very inspirational PlaceCard Me! that has been steadily and patiently working on SEO and after just a few months gets hundreds of visitors every day. I find examples like these both helpful and inspirational and I hope you will too! Do you have questions or suggestions? Please leave a comment below.

George Hannes

Finisher

Maker

7yr ago

Cory Zue

Chimp List Helper

@grghannes Thanks for making this site and for the Place Card Me shoutout! :)

Oskar Krawczyk

Headway

Awesome to see traction for some new startups, especially if they add annotations. I've added Headway and got some nice feedback and suggestions from random people about our traction progress.

Pros:

Annotations are a great insight to what others can do to get better stats

Cons:

If only more sites added annotations

Ghost Kitty

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Tractionbeat

Built for #founders to share

Do you use Tractionbeat?