15,000 Members per day

That's right guys, Me2everyone is averaging over 15,000 new members per day. The site is growing at an extraordinary rate. The crazy thing is that the growth rate is exponential. The more people there are, the more people that will tell their friends. I think this concept may actually work if Me2everyone has a killer script.

Looks like they will soon be upgrading a ton of stuff. Here is an exert from their latest blog entry on February 20th:

On average a new member joins me2everyone once every 6 seconds! Not bad for a website that still hasn't launched. And to be honest, this is what I wanted to talk about today...

We agree that m2e is boring.
We also agree that we need to bring the improvements online ASAP.

However we also want to make this website stable. Yesterday, for example, the website suddenly froze. Why? Well, it seems that all the load was on one server (we have 3) and some coding had not been optimised. We found this, fixed it and hopefully you are not experiencing any problems with speed. That fixed, we noticed that an admin based counter has stopped working properly. We need this more in the Beta website than here, so it won't affect you too much.

So the improvements we are making are centred more on the Admin features just now: getting the engine "souped" up a bit :) We've also started looking at leased line options today, upgrading the RAM to 8GB per server and even adding more processors.

So here is our schedule:

1. Optimise the database coding
2. Improve the server performance
3. Start to change the front-end
4. Build the new Beta features for the members' area
5. Test, monitor and fix as we go
6. Introduce the main graphics engine for the "FULL" website
7. Open up the m2e advertising & business member channels

Now we want to achieve all this over the next 6 to 8 weeks. OK, it's a little slower than we wanted, but with 158,000 members after 6 weeks the team know we have to get this perfect to ensure growth this year beyond 5m people.

Oh, sorry about the slow-down in news updates this week. We've done a little internal re-organisation, hired new lawyers and been training our customer care people.

I'm getting rather excited. It's amazing that a website can get 160,000 sign ups in under 6 weeks. I would not be surprised to see 1 million more members in the next 6 week. It's funny the Profiles blog writer was signup #74. That gives you an idea how fast this has grown.