How do websites like chess.com become popular?

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How do websites/apps become popular?

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Good advertising, good game developers, creativity, effort, time, a skilled team of developers with ~5 years of experience, planning, good artists, a high budget, and luck.
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Very carefully
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this site is only popular because of good early marketing and having a simple url
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adding new features that people might like and creative advertising

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MasonEx wrote:
this site is only popular because of good early marketing and having a simple url

advertising might also be one more factor

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Bruh advertising=marketing in this context
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but in years like 2012,2016 and 2023,2025 chess.com was not very popular

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BillByronFan wrote:
Bruh advertising=marketing in this context

well sometimes you can see ads on yt

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like when you're on a video that's showing you chess tactics etc

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Dog ads are a form of marketing
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yeah so...

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#6 I said that in #2
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im saying its not only advertising they also added new features that why there are lot of people on chess.com

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Ads are marketing, but marketing isn’t ads.

Like a square and polygon.
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Life Review (2025)

Play Coach (June 2025)

Courses (Oct 2025

here are some btw

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Frequent updates make the game better, but don’t affect a site’s popularity.
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Sp3ctr4LV01D wrote:
Ads are marketing, but marketing isn’t ads.
Like a square and polygon.

ok now I get it ads are marketing that's what confused me

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Ok, nice
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What else did I miss?