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It all started back in 2005 when two college roommates, Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian, decided to create a platform where users could submit and vote on content. The idea was to have a place where the most popular stuff would rise to the top, kind of like a popularity contest for internet posts. Initially, Reddit was seeded with fake accounts to make it seem more populated than it actually was. But as more and more people discovered the site, it started to gain traction. By 2011, Reddit had grown so popular that it became an independent subsidiary of its parent company, Advance Publications.
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How Reddit used Fake Users to Popularise their Site! So Reddit was launched in 2005 and initially struggled to gain popularity. To address this, Reddit's founder namely Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian created multiple fake accounts to stimulate ac
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The Complete Story of Reddit! It was 2005. Alexis Ohanian was sitting in his law school entrance exam when he had a sudden realizationโhe didnโt want to be a lawyer. So, he just walked out mid-exam, went to a Waffle House, and decided to do some
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Bumble model for finding roommates! So, recently I was in mumbai and found it too difficult to find a perfect roommate. So what if we creat a platform on which people can find roommates by just swapping just like bumble or tinder! What do you thin
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In 2015, everyone thought Reddit would die. Their CEO quit, millions of users protested & it was the most toxic place on the internet. 9 years later, it's Gen-Z's favorite hangout site worth $12.5 Billion. The impossible turnaround Silicon Valley
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Another Failed Startup!!๐ซก๐ Vines: A very Popular social media app that provided 6 second looping video. It was started in 2012 it's peak era was 2013-2014 having 200Million active user during this peak time. Content creators were called " Viners
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Flickr: From an Online.Game Tool to a Photo Sharing App! Flickr was initially part of an online multiplayer game called Game Neverending, made by Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield. That game included a feature allowing players to upload and sh
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" Moon mining startup Interlune wants to start DIGGING for helium-3 by 2030 " โ Interlune, a startup with $18M funding (including Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian's firm), aims to be the first private company mining helium-3 from the Moon for Ear
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