Here is the TC and Yahoo article if you guys would like to read it:

TC: https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/19/smores-is-a-music-discovery-app-with-a-tiktok-like-feed/

Yahoo: https://www.yahoo.com/now/tried-music-using-smores-app-173000138.html

Hi everyone! My cofounder (Andrei) and I have a special announcement. Our app got featured on Techcrunch and Yahoo News! With this exciting news, I wanted to give you guys an inside look on how it actually got featured and the results/metrics from the articles.

  1. How we were discovered -

As you may know, one of our favorite marketing channels is Reddit. We generally post on multiple music related subreddits getting a few views and upvotes per post. We love viewing all the comments, suggestions and improvements that we get on a daily basis. IMO Reddit is a fantastic, under-rated tool for testing out an idea and getting early-stage user feedback.

One night I posted on the “Internet is Beautiful” subreddit not thinking it would go anywhere. The next morning I wake up to see our user downloads spiked massively. I checked my reddit post and low and behold it ended up being the #1 Hottest post with over 500+ upvotes in a subreddit that had over a million members. I was shocked to say the least.

For transparency, here was the post’s performance:

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We ended up getting a ton of feedback, comments and there were a few media and news writers that DMed us asking if they could write a piece on it. This is where Techcrunch and Yahoo news editors reached out.

Results and Metrics

Here were some results around the time the Techcrunch and Yahoo articles were published :

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