Interesting metrics from The Blue Book launch

When I first started the Passionate About OSS site / blog many years ago, I was lucky to get a handful of views per day. It’s grown by many multiples since then, fortunately.

The launch of The Blue Book OSS/BSS Vendor Directory generated some exciting metrics yesterday. The directory alone came within 5 pageviews of the highest count we’ve ever seen on PassionateAboutOSS.com (and PAOSS is up to nearly 2,500 posts now). That total appeared in only a 14-hour window because we didn’t go live with The Directory or metric collection until ~10am local time! The graphs are indicating that we should easily exceed PAOSS’s best ever count today.

If you were one of the many viewers who popped in from all around the world to look at The Directory, thank you! If you have any suggested improvements, we’d love to hear from you as we’re sure to be making many further tweaks in coming days/months.

But the most interesting fact about the launch yesterday was that a job posting appeared on UpWork to scrape all the data we’ve presented. On our very first day!! In fact a gentleman in the US reviewed bids and awarded the UpWork job all within about 14 hours of go-live.

That’s positive news because it means that at least one person must’ve thought the data was useful. 🙂

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