Introducing … Octop.us!
Published on May 20th, 2007
It feels really weird.
After so many nights spent creating this, it’s almost unreal that I’ve finally reached a point where the site is online, fully functioning, and I’m writing these words on my blog, finally ready to unleash my creation at the unsuspecting world 
It wasn’t too long ago that I thought I would never be done with it. Time and again, just as I thought – this is it, I got all the annoying little bugs that prevent me from going live, I would discover something else that was so small and annoying, yet unacceptable to be in the final version.
But I did it. I finally did it!!! The site is live and ready to go and I’m just so damn happy!
The site was born out of a conversation I had with a friend of mine about restaurants. He mentioned that if you don’t have a clue about any of the wines on the list, getting SECOND cheapest one is a bad idea. Restaurant people know our psychology – we avoid the cheapest stuff because well, no one wants to look cheap – and don’t want to go for too expensive if we don’t know what it is. So more often that not, we go for the second cheapest one. Restaurants know this, and that’s why they put their crappiest stuff in that spot.
After hearing that, I thought to myself.. “Wow, that was pretty neat! I wonder if there’s a site that has all that useful little tips about pretty much anything in life…” I didn’t find such a site because it didn’t exist, and the rest, as they say, is history.
I don’t want to spend much longer talking … So without further ado, may I present to you – a site whose slogan is “Tips on ANYTHING” – here it is:
May 20th, 2007 at 5:49 am
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May 24th, 2007 at 3:34 am
Hello Alex,
Congratulation for Octop.us, I wish you a lot of success. I think that:
- Your idea is quite original;
- Your site is EASY to use;
- The design of your site is nice and coherent, good usability;
- Finally, if it goes beyond a certain “critical mass”, I am sure that it can be very useful for everyone
Now, I guess that your current challenge is to build up the Octop.us Community… Indeed, I have started my Wavumi the 12th of April 2007 and I am really struggling to get members
I hope that you will find the right way to increase your traffic.
For your information, I went to Octop.us from the “Personal Development for Smart People (TM) Forums”. I would be very interested if you continue to write about the process of building the Octop.us Community on this blog, do not forget to include figures!
Again, I wish you a lot of success with Octopus!
/Patrice – http://wavumi.blogspot.com/ – An author of a web site is likely to visit the web sites authored by its visitors