We didn’t really know what to expect when we launched the beta but the numbers sure have surprised us and it’s been intriguing to follow the stats as various blogs made posts about the site. Today we crossed an interesting milestone. User number 1,000 signed up to use Rotaboard for free.

An interesting observation is that it took quite long before American or English language sites picked up Rotaboard. Instead is was tech-blogs from non-english speaking countries that showed us some linklove first.

• We submitted the site to HappyCodr and after that things more or less took their own course.
• Surprisingly enough the first site to pick it up was the Japanese site 100shiki which we wrote more about here. Subsequently a couple of other Japanese sites also picked it up.
• Museum of Modern Beta then came along, and in it’s wake followed:
  • The Spanish software blog GenBeta came along and sent hordes of Spanish people to our site
  • The Italian geek site Geekissimo
  • The German Web 2.0 observer web2null
  • The French, Montreal based technologist Benoit Descary
• And then finally came two English language big league sites:
  • Israeli Orli‘s posted it to her Go2Web20 site that keeps a tap on what’s on in online apps.
  • The Web 2.0 Workgroup member Emily Chang’s eHub

These are only the sites that have sent a lot of traffic our way. According to Google Analytics, people are coming to Rotaboard from about 200 different domains currently and encouragingly, they are coming back daily.

Keep talking about Rotaboard and keep telling us how we can make it better – have a great day!