Comment by endymi0n
10 years ago
514 days ago we launched JustWatch - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9005641
By now, we're the largest streaming search engine in the world, having surpassed both canistream.it and instantwatcher.com - and the hybrid app is nearing one million Android downloads now while still being featured on the Cordova and Ionic showcases. All this with zero marketing dollars invested and no venture capital on board. Fun ride so far :)
Making decent money on Amazon referrals and the like?
Let's say they pay our office space :)
Seriously, the main reason we're outgrowing our competitors so fast is that audience marketing is a much more lucrative business than affiliate marketing.
That way the site stays clean, the content relevant and our users only occasionally see trailers on Youtube and Facebook from movies they'd actually want to see in cinema!
Win, win.
What's audience marketing?
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Word. I have had the same stubbornness about keeping my side project clean and ad-free for a long time. It ended up paying for itself in other ways, who knew!
Congrats from a fellow German. And if it's still the case: awesome example of an Ionic app.