Goozzy.com - a year later
Hello, dear friends.
Today you will be re-told about the startup. Repeat a year later. Another "promising" startup, stalled at the very beginning of the way - you think. But I ask you not to rush to conclusions and read our history to the end and, perhaps, become part of this story.
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You may remember how in the summer of 2009 several projects appeared on stickers attached to specific points on web pages. The first such project was just our Goozzy project with goose-bears, tails and the “Guzznut” button. Having typed a couple of thousand users in the first week, we learned that the project slows down, that our language is not clear to anyone, that “this, this is that” was not thought out. In general, we failed to conquer the world in a couple of months. However, our competitors also fell silent.
Then there was a lot of work on other projects, Goozzy moved from global to local mode. He helped us to work and send each other useful messages like: “There’s a mistake, please correct it!” Or “An article about us came out - it was too lazy to write in the mail - hung a sticker.”
And, most likely, our story would come to an end if in the spring we did not find an investor.
It was like a breath of fresh air. Realizing our mistakes, we again started working on the project, connecting it with Twitter, Facebook and e-mail, formulating the idea of ​​the project as “share everywhere”, modifying usability and even thinking through a new design. July 23 Goozzy was again open for free registration. And then a miracle happened, or successful pr-activity shot: articles about the project appeared in such publications as BFM.ru , Sostav.ru (where the article was called Russian IT-company will enslave the Internet ), Forbes.ru , which made it unclear From who came from politically active users, the magazine Itogi , and that caused us great amazement - the newspaper Metro .
Since then, users have almost 10 thousand. We managed to translate Goozzy into several languages ​​(En, De, Fr, Ua), make some progress in Europe, hold a competition for the most active trainer and create a redesign, due to which the guzzy were turned into geese, and the unusual design - into a convenient one.
It was:
It became:
Other innovations worth noting:
On November 2, 2010, we closed the free registration until the new year, but left the opportunity to register by invite . This is due to the fact that in the States several top-level optimization professionals agreed to help make Goozzy even better.
We again invite you to evaluate Goozzy - we really need your objective criticism and advice.
If you think you can help the project - write to inbox, send an invite.
Today you will be re-told about the startup. Repeat a year later. Another "promising" startup, stalled at the very beginning of the way - you think. But I ask you not to rush to conclusions and read our history to the end and, perhaps, become part of this story.
')
You may remember how in the summer of 2009 several projects appeared on stickers attached to specific points on web pages. The first such project was just our Goozzy project with goose-bears, tails and the “Guzznut” button. Having typed a couple of thousand users in the first week, we learned that the project slows down, that our language is not clear to anyone, that “this, this is that” was not thought out. In general, we failed to conquer the world in a couple of months. However, our competitors also fell silent.
Then there was a lot of work on other projects, Goozzy moved from global to local mode. He helped us to work and send each other useful messages like: “There’s a mistake, please correct it!” Or “An article about us came out - it was too lazy to write in the mail - hung a sticker.”
And, most likely, our story would come to an end if in the spring we did not find an investor.
It was like a breath of fresh air. Realizing our mistakes, we again started working on the project, connecting it with Twitter, Facebook and e-mail, formulating the idea of ​​the project as “share everywhere”, modifying usability and even thinking through a new design. July 23 Goozzy was again open for free registration. And then a miracle happened, or successful pr-activity shot: articles about the project appeared in such publications as BFM.ru , Sostav.ru (where the article was called Russian IT-company will enslave the Internet ), Forbes.ru , which made it unclear From who came from politically active users, the magazine Itogi , and that caused us great amazement - the newspaper Metro .
Since then, users have almost 10 thousand. We managed to translate Goozzy into several languages ​​(En, De, Fr, Ua), make some progress in Europe, hold a competition for the most active trainer and create a redesign, due to which the guzzy were turned into geese, and the unusual design - into a convenient one.
It was:
It became:
Other innovations worth noting:
- Toolbar moved to browser
- iPhone version (while in alpha);
- Demo video and gaming tutorial as in computer games;
- The possibility of manual and automatic cross-posting on Twitter and Facebook;
- The ability to invite friends from Facebook or Gmail;
- Fixed thousands of errors and compatibility issues with various sites.
On November 2, 2010, we closed the free registration until the new year, but left the opportunity to register by invite . This is due to the fact that in the States several top-level optimization professionals agreed to help make Goozzy even better.
We again invite you to evaluate Goozzy - we really need your objective criticism and advice.
If you think you can help the project - write to inbox, send an invite.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/107564/
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