Comments on: Cloudvox: OS X a Developer's Paradise

By: Troy

Troy — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:31:14 +0000

Given that in July cloudvox.com was a stealth landing page, 1500 visits is way more than I expected. This was the launch – in October.

To your comment, I’m guessing that nobody’s dumb enough to retool their entire plan based on our blog post. Take our data as another data point. For those of us who are data geeks (and try to learn from others’ empirical results), it’s helpful, but you’ll have to adapt it.

By: anon

anon — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:19:40 +0000

When I look at Cloudvox.com on Compete I see barely any traffic, the most recent month reporting ~1,500 visits in July… why don’t you guys get some stats from highly visited API company website if you want to make some statement about how startups should optimize for early adopters?

By: Troy

Troy — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:19:38 +0000

Rod got it. J Weed, this a sample of browsers who visited cloudvox.com in ~24 hours, from any platform. It’s largely unrelated to iPhone apps; Cloudvox isn’t a mobile app service, it’s a phone API to place/receive and control phone calls (IVR, SIP phones, conferences and the like). Most people visited from desktops/laptops – only 3-4% were from phones.

To Rod’s question, while it’s a very technical audience – developers – there’s nothing about Cloudvox that’s specific to OS X (nor marketing that targeted those users). The 53% OS X and 9% Chrome figures are probably pretty representative of API services. HTH.

By: Rod

Rod — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:03:36 +0000

I think the article’s talking about desktop OS X (vs. Mobile OS X) as having a surprisingly large developer share. The screenshots suggest a majority of site visits are from clients running desktop OS X, which is interesting because it includes all platforms (mobile and desktop). Given the lack of any data about the data I’m not sure what can be concluded, however. It’s clearly more interesting than “99% of developers use OS X…. at WWDC”, but it’s hard to tell how much more.

By: J Weed

J Weed — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 01:49:51 +0000

uh, what’s their sample size? Because really, I think all this shows is that 50% of cloudvox’s users are iphone users, and maybe that iphone’s are worth developing for as a mobile platform (shocking newsflash there).