Spring update on Shade Map
A couple of exciting things have happened during the past three months:
- traffic to the site grew substantially
- performance improved and new features were added
- I’ve started to think about a monetising strategy
Traffic
Snapshot of live traffic
I always anticipated that Hacker News would be the place to get traffic from. The users are highly technical and appreciate novel uses of technology. It may still be true that Shade Map would be a big hit IF it made it to the front page but without gaming the system it’s proved impossible to get enough upvotes. Shade Map is visual eye candy and it’s hard to showcase that on a text based community like HN.
I’ve never been a reddit user, but I posted a link to Shade Map in r/webgl
and received some modest interest and valuable feedback. I stumbled across r/MapPorn
at some point and its visual nature captured my attention. It’s true what they...