By Sam Parr, organizer of Hustle Con The Myth of Going Viral In the summer of 2013, my team and I created a roommate-finding app appropriately named Roommates. In a nutshell, it was just like Tinder…but for roommates. After our team had built an amazingly awesome app, we needed users! To find users we ended up creating a series of infographics that were seen by hundreds of thousands of people and featured in Techcrunch, Huffington Post, Curbed SF, Venture Beat, The Next Web, The New York Observer, and dozens of other media outlets.  Our infographic for San Francisco, for example, well exceeded 250k views in less than one week.… Read the rest