After 20-ish days, I’m pretty happy with the state of Dad-o-Matic, the site I started for dads to write about parenting. We have 33 authors, 65 posts, and over 230 regular RSS readers. I don’t have the daily stats visit number yet because I guess I didn’t install the stats thing the right way. But hey, 230 regular RSS readers in under a month is pretty cool, eh?
What I’m most pleased about is how excited and passionate the dads posting on the site are about their thoughts. It’s decidedly different than I thought the project would go. For whatever reason, I thought I’d have to beg people to contribute. At this point, I’m just as surprised as anyone at the number of great posts I see there. I love what I’m reading, and I can say that, because it’s rarely something I’ve written.
So, what it’s teaching me is that great content ideas can launch well, that great authors are just waiting for a project that might spur their ideas, and that it’s not that difficult to launch a new project, if you have the support of a passionate community (that’s you).
Ed pointed out that the commenters on Dad-o-Matic are pretty kick-butt, and I can’t disagree. It’s really amazing how great people have been. Wonderful community forming there, and how can I not love that? Thanks for the reminder, Ed.
Note: I just made Paisano administrator. Why? Because he fricken rocks, and does a lot of great things. He’s writing on four blogs at this point. But if I were him, and if Pete and Ostrow plan for 2009, I’d dump me/Dad-o-Matic the moment Mashable offers him a full time gig.
Thanks for reading Dad-o-Matic. I’m loving it, and glad you’re into it, too.
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