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by ashishk 6112 days ago
Questions for PG/ Jon: How many active users, and founders did DailyBooth have when it applied to YC?
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They had (and still have) two founders. According to Compete, they had on the order of 40-50k uniques a month, but that may be US only.

http://siteanalytics.compete.com/dailybooth.com/

I just went back and looked at their application to figure out how we realized they were good. Their answers were very clear and concise; they obviously understood their users well. Plus they had both done interesting stuff before.

Jon has definitely done tons of cool stuff: http://yesthat.com/
It'd be really cool to see the responses, only of course, if Jon is comfortable with this.
The article said 6.5 million uniques. The URL you gave claims 150k. I have always been confused by the various rankings but that seems a big difference.
And Quantcast says they only have 9.2k US uniques!

http://www.quantcast.com/dailybooth.com

Obviously the data on these sites is crap. Whatever number Jon is quoting is presumably the most accurate, since he has the actual logs.

I figure between 150K and 200K uniques (daily) based on Alexa and 5 sites that I have access to log files of.

Alexa is pretty lousy in an absolute sense but if you can compare with known numbers it gets a lot more useable.