Through this blog we aim to provide lots of insight into what we see on a daily basis from our growing community of mobile internet users. We plan to share much of this information with you, the community of mobile internet enthusiasts as part of our learning and hope to hear lots of feedback from each and everyone in terms of helping us along our path to building Wauwee.com into a vibrant social community for people all over the world.
Let me start out by introducing the service and our team. Wauwee started out as an accident. We were originally working on the Wauw.fm service which allows streaming of radio, music, photo download/upload from a PC to your mobile phone. Great product but before its time. However once we released the photo sharing element of the service we noticed a dramatic increase in usage. Suddenly we had tapped into an emerging trend and so we set about focusing on what our users wanted (which involved several surveys and lots of late night txt messages :) As a result we decided to seperate the photo sharing features from Wauw.fm and build Wauwee.com. We did this April 2008 and since then we've not looked back. Our enthusiastic users pushed us to build social features like chatting and profiles so they could engage more easily with their friends. We are very happy to report that we have over 500,000 signed up users in March 2009 and lots more joining every day. Considering we have no marketing budget thats quite an achievement. And thats not all, our growth is now above 100,000 users/month.
Let me take this opportunity to introduce the team who bring Wauwee to life everyday and continue to excite our users. Michel is our CEO and pretty much chief of everything :) Jan takes care of our advertising sales. James handles the engineering effort. Fake designs all our inhouse graphics and is often seen on the Support Wauwee for some reason! Remco keeps the backend running along with Pierre who churns out the web services and Jozsef who builds our phone apps. Last but certainly not least is Naoman who has joined us for his marketing internship and does a great job helping us better think about marketing and communications to our international audience.
We do hope you subscribe to our blog and stay tuned for much more to come.
The Wauwee Team
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