I’ve started a number of websites and communities in the past and none of them have been very successful in any way. However, that has never stopped me from starting another one. It’s fun to get involved and create a community site about something you’re interest in.
In early March I started www.iphonedevsdk.com. My goal was simply to blog about the news surrounding the new development platform and to provide a place for developers to come and discuss topics related to the iPhone SDK. I got lucky and hooked up with a popular tutorial site that was also just getting started. They essentially link to my site as the official forums for their tutorial driven site.
Over time the visitors and pageviews increased to levels I had never been able to see in something I created myself. My site and the site I partnered with worked together to create a resource that people wanted to keep coming back to.
Looking at the Google Analytics report right now, iPhone Dev SDK has had 163,266 pageviews by 21,896 visitors in the last 30 days. I’m amazed by that. In only a few months the site has grown far beyond anything I ever expected. What’s really interesting is that in just the last 7 days we’ve seen a huge surge in traffic, mostly driven by the upgraded forum software. Over the last 7 days, the pageviews have been holding steady at 8,000 per day, 68% higher than the average over the last 30 days. Once the 30 day cycle completes, and assuming traffic remains steady at 8,000 per day, we’ll be looking at 240,000 pageviews a month. Amazing.
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