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How Geocodio Grew

Geocoding API for addresses and coordinates

How did Geocodio grow?

Summary of the sourced claims below

Geocodio grew primarily by actively engaging with customers through interviews and support interactions to gather feedback and understand their needs. The company also benefited from a significant but short-lived traffic spike after being featured on the front page of Hacker News.

Channels

2 channels · grouped by how Geocodio grows
  • Product Hunt

    · 2 mentions · 2 sources
    “we launched it and to our huge surprise it was on the front page of hacker news all day which we did not expect though it’s really funny if you look at our Google Analytics because there’s this massive spike on the first day that has never gone in a scale on the chart yet and a lot of that traffi...”
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    “We were actually fortunate enough to be page one of Hacker News, which was really exciting. We were on the front page for 24 hours. We got tons of traffic from it.”
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  • SEO

    · 1 mention
    “In any given day, I’m modeling pricing options for a new offering, writing landing pages for SEO, evaluating our insurance needs, interviewing customers, fighting with my local development environment, and doing customer support.”
    high

How 3,117 businesses grow

Of businesses with mapped growth channels, the share using each — Geocodio’s highlighted.
  • Referral/Word-of-mouth
    66%
  • Social media
    64%
  • Search/SEO
    58% ◀
  • Email
    48%
  • Community
    37% ◀
  • Content/Inbound
    35%
  • Partnerships
    33%
  • Events
    25%
  • Paid ads
    24%
  • Outbound/Sales
    19%
  • Press/PR
    18%
  • Marketplaces/App stores
    12%
  • Podcasting
    4%
  • Building in public
    3%