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How pdftribute.net started

How it unfolded on twitter, and how we took the site viral.

  1. PatrickSocha
    Patrick Socha@PatrickSocha
    Love the idea behind #pdftribute
    Sun, Jan 13 2013 03:29:29
  2. PatrickSocha
    Patrick Socha@PatrickSocha
    Idea: Crawl #pdftribute and store all the links in a database then make it freely available :-)
    Sun, Jan 13 2013 03:34:57
  3. I_Soldatos
    Irene Soldatos@I_Soldatos
    Bloody excellent idea! RT @PatrickSocha Idea: Crawl #pdftribute and store all the links in a database then make it freely available :-)
    Sun, Jan 13 2013 04:04:32
  4. PatrickSocha
    Patrick Socha@PatrickSocha
    @I_Soldatos Quickly made this: pdftribute.psocha.co.uk. Domain will probably soon change etc..
    Sun, Jan 13 2013 06:29:19
  5. devopstom
    Tom O'Connor@devopstom
    @PatrickSocha Is the source on github?
    Sun, Jan 13 2013 07:57:41
  6. PatrickSocha
    Patrick Socha@PatrickSocha
    @devopstom It is not. Would you like me to?
    Sun, Jan 13 2013 07:58:25
  7. devopstom
    Tom O'Connor@devopstom
    @PatrickSocha If you do, then I'll bootstrap it.
    Sun, Jan 13 2013 07:58:46
  8. devopstom
    Tom O'Connor@devopstom
    @PatrickSocha You haz a pull request.
    Sun, Jan 13 2013 08:51:43
  9. PatrickSocha
    Patrick Socha@PatrickSocha
    Updated pdftribute.psocha.co.uk layout styled by @devopstom :-) #pdftribute
    Sun, Jan 13 2013 09:02:03
  10. venturejessica
    Jessica Richman@venturejessica
    I love the internet! #pdftribute site up by @patricksocha in a few hours, new interface by @devopstom in a few more. Thanks to you both!
    Sun, Jan 13 2013 09:03:50
  11. PatrickSocha
    Patrick Socha@PatrickSocha
    59 concurrent users online :-)
    Sun, Jan 13 2013 10:24:21
  12. PatrickSocha
    Patrick Socha@PatrickSocha
    150 concurrent. Now we've sorted scaling, time to refine results :-)
    Sun, Jan 13 2013 10:32:06
  13. PatrickSocha
    Patrick Socha@PatrickSocha
    Just posted to HN :-) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5051528
    Sun, Jan 13 2013 11:29:49
  14. hnycombinator
    HN from Y Combinator@hnycombinator
    #PDFtribute website with links scraped from Twitter goo.gl/fb/JLiF6
    Sun, Jan 13 2013 11:40:26
  15. devopstom
    Tom O'Connor@devopstom
    Since 6pm, Concurrent Visitors: 462, Votes on HN: 53, Cloud backends: 5, Tweets: >1004, FB Likes: >357. Total Views: > 12780 #pdftribute
    Sun, Jan 13 2013 14:18:00
  16. newsyc50
    Hacker News 50@newsyc50
    PDFtribute website with links scraped from Twitter pdftribute.net (bit.ly/V6ejku) via @PatrickSocha #trending
    Sun, Jan 13 2013 14:16:02
  17. violetwasp
    Violet Wasp@violetwasp
    @PatrickSocha what are u using for pdftribute.net? Python? Where are u hosting it? :-)
    Sun, Jan 13 2013 14:40:35
  18. PatrickSocha
    Patrick Socha@PatrickSocha
    @violetwasp Python back-end to scrape, and php front end. Hosted with the lovely guys at @AppFog (Check them out, one kick-ass service!)
    Sun, Jan 13 2013 14:51:05
  19. PatrickSocha
    Patrick Socha@PatrickSocha
    Everything stable and working. Now for a bit of revision hah.
    Sun, Jan 13 2013 15:08:57
  20. devopstom
    Tom O'Connor@devopstom
    10,860 views, 360 currently on the site. Pingdom set up, I'm going to bed.
    Sun, Jan 13 2013 15:41:40
  21. PatrickSocha
    Patrick Socha@PatrickSocha
    We made it in a link on TechCrunch :D techcrunch.com/2013/01/13/pdf…
    Mon, Jan 14 2013 01:58:13
  22. devopstom
    Tom O'Connor@devopstom
    HOLY FLURKING SCHNIT! bbc.co.uk/news/technolog… BBC Direct inbound link to pdftribute.net /cc @PatrickSocha
    Mon, Jan 14 2013 03:59:19
  23. PatrickSocha
    Patrick Socha@PatrickSocha
    BBC link to us. Only using 2% of network resources. Still a better love story than twilight ;)
    Mon, Jan 14 2013 04:38:58
  24. devopstom
    Tom O'Connor@devopstom
    @PatrickSocha We just hit 500 visitors on the site at a time.
    Mon, Jan 14 2013 04:42:29
  25. HenryMoulton
    Henry Moulton@HenryMoulton
    @PatrickSocha love watching the progress from your first tweet about the idea to getting @devopstom onboard, scaling, and then TC/BBC linked
    Mon, Jan 14 2013 04:46:52

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