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How Countly Grew

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How did Countly grow?

Summary of the sourced claims below

Countly grew by leveraging open-source to attract enterprise customers without outbound sales. Additionally, a blog post shared on Hacker News reached the first page, generating significant attention.

Channels

2 channels · grouped by how Countly grows
  • Open-source community

    · 1 mention
    “we used open-source to attract enterprise customers without doing any outbound sales”
    high
  • Hackathons

    · 1 mention
    “I had a blog post sent to Hacker News and it got to the first page and there was a lot of attention”
    medium

How 2,669 businesses grow

Of businesses with mapped growth channels, the share using each — Countly’s highlighted.
  • Referral/Word-of-mouth
    68%
  • Social media
    58%
  • Search/SEO
    57%
  • Email
    47%
  • Community
    33%
  • Content/Inbound
    31%
  • Partnerships
    30%
  • Paid ads
    24%
  • Events
    24%
  • Press/PR
    18%
  • Outbound/Sales
    16%
  • Marketplaces/App stores
    8%
  • Brand Authenticity
    2%
  • Product expansion
    2%