.200,000 Pets on Dogster & Catster!
This weekend our sites grew by about 1000 new cats and dogs, but the big news is that our 200,000th pet joined the Dogster & Catster Community. That’s right! At around 11pm Pacific time Saturday night a Swiss Mountain Dog/Border Collie named Sparky joined the ranks of Dogster pushing our “little” community over 200k.
It looks like the word is out about the best pet community on the web because all our metrics are now starting to kick into a higher gear.
Almost 2.5 years ago while working out the original strolling code I said to my architecture advisor, “we’ll if we ever get to 10,000 pets, I’ll deal with that problem when I get to it.” In the end the original code I deployed worked to about 100,000 pets before we had to move session data to the database. Yet it’s still shocking to see what I expected to be popular become a phenom right before our eyes.
My next goal is 500,000 pets. Then we get our gold record!