We are just blown away by the great welcome users and influencers are giving to our new app,
PasteFire.comPastefire started when i [ouriel] observed myself having a pain in dialing phone numbers i was finding on my computer. But by discussing with Yann (Appsfire co founder) the idea evolved to a sort of a super task assistant. It was not just a copy/paste tool but a copy/act tool.
It is a kind of tool that is hard to understand and evaluate until you really use it. So try
itPastefire is a little story
full of surprises. We thought it was worth sharing
We started creating Pastefire the day we had the idea, about 10 days ago. The experience of creating and marketing this app has been very important to us. We started by exchanging casual emails and as the interest was growing we decide to push the button. We wanted to do it fast and cheap (we are a self funded company).We found a super cool site template and did the rest ourselves.
This has been even more challenging as during the process my mac totally crashed and i could only progress by using my iPhone in a place where i had no access to computers. In a way that helped me because i found myself in the situation of really needing this app (and it s always good to build things that you really need for yourself)
But the first surprise was the speed our app was approved (less than 72h). Apple has
changed something, and probably outsourced part of their approval process to make things faster (we observed someone in the NY area testing the app during the process). This enabled us to reach the app store in about 8 days from the moment we had the idea of Pastefire.
The second surprise is the success: in about 48h Pastefire has reached the App store rankings. Top #30 in productivity in the US and
#1 in France. Clearly what helped was the
amazing PR coverage we got (check the quotes on our
site). But we also helped a little by adding an easy to share feature in our own app, using our
getap.ps link technology.
What we underestimated is how universal the pain we were experiencing was. To tell the truth Yann and I felt, as we were building the app, that we would hit something. But we had no idea that would be such.
The third surprise was the passion the app has fired off. Passion is very important. It means people care. Passion does not mean people love your app unconditionally. Actually Pastefire created a lot of skepticism and many are still wondering whether it is really usefull. Some find it useless. But lots find it game changing. This is the passionate debate that matters. If you app can't reach that, it means you are missing something.
The fourth surprise is how some really caring users are working with it. We had some issues with our bookmarklet (we re doing it again) and someone already improved it and handed us the code. Our teasing video is really crap. Someone already
made a super cool demo which we'll probably copy.
Now the 5th surprise is yet to come. It could be good or bad. What we know is that in order to be good we ll have to be up to the challenge. We already hear the sound of coming competitors. We already hear the sound of intense customer support. We already hear the sound of required new features
the 5th surprise has yet to come
