Google's Stack Overflow

A 6 month old site, with a team of 6, gets 16M pageviews / month.

StackOverflow.com

You may recognize the name Joel Spolsky from Joel's popular blog JoelOnSoftware.com, books, or his column on Inc.

What you probably don't know about Joel Spolsky is that he also helped found StackOverflow.com as an answer to Experts Exchange top rankings for most programming questions entered into Google. Stack Overflow is Yahoo Answers meets Digg for programmers. In the Google TechTalks video below, Joel talks about the genesis for StackOverflow.com and how much traction it has picked up after 6 months.

Stats

• 136k Questions Answered
• 6M Uniques / Month
• 16M Pageviews / Month
• 5.8M Google Referrals

Wow!!!

5.8M referrals per month after only 6 months is a ton of traffic and trust from Google. Kudos to Joel for identifying a niche that was wide open.