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Crossed 2000 registered this week

Didn't realize we crossed 2000 registered users on our image based medical reference site @ grepmed.com

I still remember how excited we were when we hit 100 users, it was a momentous occasion. I used to check our database daily so didn't realize this milestone had passed us by.

Still have to figure out what to do with all of these emails. Haven't had the bandwidth to email our users but also still wary of spamming busy physicians- a fear I need to get over.

Users are increasing linearly with our traffic (thanks google) so still haven't quite reached a positive viral coefficient, or how to convert more of our users to contributors to the platform, but we'll take this as a win.

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    Saw your interview on sideprojects.net, I'm not a doctor but I think this is such a great idea! I wonder if there are other professions where this idea could work.

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      Oh gosh thanks so much! Yes we suffer from information overload in medicine it’s overwhelming. Each patients chart is the size of a bible now and each note is copy-pasta garbage.

      One vertical we’ve discussed is Veterinary Medicine. Compared to human medicine they have far fewer online resources and all of the google stuff points to human medicine stuff.

      If you know of any entrepreneurial minded vets, please send them my way!!!

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        Data engineer for a health care company here. I agree with you that there's information overload in medicine, and it's likely that people aren't even seeing all of the data that really could be presented, which is crazy to think about.

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          It's just impossible to keep up with, moreover so much is inaccurate! It gets a bit frustrating when patients expect us to look in the chart and don't bring or know their meds etc.

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        Will do.

        Yeah and I think a lot of people are visual learners, have strong visual memory, etc. which is why posters and diagrams are so popular. You can convey so much more information that is quickly digestible vs text. I think about how in textbooks most people just skip to diagrams for explanations rather than reading the whole chapter.

        The problem is text is easier to search over and index, but I think the tagging system you use is effective, a diagram is only going to have a few concepts associated with it.

        Anyways, congrats and goodluck!

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          Yes it's a problem I believe we're probably fighting with google- how to let the crawlers know we have meaningful content when most of our data is in an image. We haven't yet figured it out why some of our images are so popular compared to similar images google buries. It's a black box unfortunately.

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            Sometime's thats the way it goes unfortunately. Nothing much you can do but explore and test relentlessly to see what works.

            I think in the end you will win just because you provide something useful that people will use. It can be a frustrating road though.

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