Growing Reddit - Web Development
Udacity
Why leaders watch it
A founder explains seeding early content to bootstrap a community, with ethical caveats on how it was done.
A short clip from Udacity's Web Development course in which Reddit co-founder Steve Huffman describes how Reddit grew early on. He explains seeding the site with content from fake accounts.
Takeaways
- Seed content to solve cold start
- Early growth is manual and unscalable
- Weigh authenticity against growth tactics
Topics: Startups & entrepreneurship
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