FMyLife.com was registered on 2009-01-18. Thats a little over two months ago.<p>According to the Alexa ranking system, its already at 2,508.<p>As far as I'm concerned, I've never seen any web site gain such immense popularity so quickly.<p>My question to you, is what about the site made it so popular so fast? is it repeatable? And lastly where is the business model?
It's popular because it's hilarious. Probably not repeatable, if only because few things are as funny as other people's happy sorrows. Business model is based on advertising, I suppose.
its popular because it did a lot of things right. it appeals to the right crowd, its entertaining and fun, its simple to use, it created and used its own meme, and it promoted itself very effectively.
Simply navigating to the oldest posts shows that the site itself existed prior to the stated registration date.<p>The earliest post I can see, #6, has the date of 10/13/2008. That's still pretty recent, but earlier than the time in the comment. It's possible it was at a different domain, of course, or that the domain was re-registered.<p><a href="http://www.fmylife.com/love/6" rel="nofollow">http://www.fmylife.com/love/6</a>