There are good things happening at MakeFive HQ. We moved, we’re lean(er), and we’re working like bananas on new features.
Lean and mean
Lately a big time-suck here has involved moving and getting skinny. Over the past few months we wanted to get our burn-rate down as low as possible. In part this helps given the dodgy [...]
We’ve had stellar traffic recently, breaking any of our past records. In fact, a whopping 140,000 people visited MakeFive last week. That’s a lot, and we’re happy to connect with so many new people!
Contest news
The new contest seems to be bringing some added activity. Congratulations go out to plmiller who won $100 and a sassy [...]
Sometimes the notion of giving away money seems like fun. (Well, at least we figure that’s how it must feel.) Regardless, it’s a crappy Monday afternoon, the rain is coming down in buckets, and we want to mix things up a little.
Some of you folks are really active here, and we greatly appreciate that. You [...]
So… February has come to a close, as has our first month of weekly winners on MakeFive. It’s been an interesting experiment to date, and we’re pretty happy with the results.
For those of you who are new to the site, a little background. Up until recently, the “What do you know?” contest was running on [...]
That’s right; the January numbers are in, and we have our winners:
1. ryankoziel (38,374 points)
2. joshwritescopy (25,720 points)
3. webdesign (17,808 points)
4. DGfromMTL (12,267 points)
5. dantes_inferno2003 (12,265 points)
For all of you in the top five, your prizes will be in the mail shortly. For those of you who still haven’t received winnings from last month, you [...]
So, with all of the new, let’s take a moment to talk about what’s new.
We have been in the news
Eric Schonfeld gave us a nice start to the holiday season by featuring our Elevator Pitch. This was followed by Robin Wauters making note of a recent article we posted, in his piece, Six Reasons Your [...]
Another month and more winners on MakeFive! It’s always great for us to see you guys getting excited about the site and spending your spare time on it!
Here’s how November played-out on MakeFive:
1. mdudlik (14,318 points)
2. webdesign (14,026 points)
3. geediu (12,589 points)
4. ninky (7,820 points)
5. michelle_3_16 (6,362 points)
Two issues arose this month around the contest, [...]
As many of you know, the contest at MakeFive has been a point of contention for some time around here. I’ll be honest with you; it gives me a complete and utter headache. Most of the time it works well; but, every once in a while we get one user who chases points, creating crap [...]
October was a solid month on MakeFive. Lots of interesting topics and a few new members have become really active on the site. I think we can safely say that the site is starting to “connect”, and a few of you seem outright addicted! (It’s okay though… we like to see you online for hours [...]
Just a general “FYI” to the MakeFive Community: we do know that points are problematic. To be frank with you, it’s just a harder thing to remedy than it may appear from the outside. Additionally, we’re really concentrating on notifications/video, and as such points won’t be addressed for a little while yet.
As noted in the [...]
