I would focus on helping them find things to do in their city, friend-match based on that, and encourage repeated hangouts.
Why?
1. People usually make friends through engaging in common interests. This takes time.
2. Building a business takes time. Selling tickets to local events and products/coupons to local small businesses gives you have a sustainable revenue model whose incentives are aligned with your mission.
3. You could easily expand into being a dating app for married couples who are bad at planning date nights.
I would focus on helping them find things to do in their city, friend-match based on that, and encourage repeated hangouts. Why? 1. People usually make friends through engaging in common interests. This takes time. 2. Building a business takes time. Selling tickets to local events and products/coupons to local small businesses gives you have a sustainable revenue model whose incentives are aligned with your mission.…
This is so true! One of the main pillars of friendship is consistency which takes time.
In general I say these friends are found as we suffer together through school or summer camp. For those less-fortunate, or who fall out of friendship, I can see an app like this being useful for some. I’m more likely to make friends incidentally, doing something where the focus is not to make friends. An app whose express purpose is connecting people like this might be trying too hard? Maybe not—-dating platforms are…
Thanks for the feedback. I never considered the "trying too hard" aspect. If I understand you correctly, it might be hard for people to broadcast the fact that they are having trouble making friends. Sorry to hear that the friends from the MMORPG days were temporary. Thanks again for the advice.
Oh, I’m not sure I miss them. They were fine friends in the moment, and we could be friends again, but I’m not sure how to find them, one might be dead by now (was an old guy at the time), and I’m happy with the small number of close friends I have now. If they went away for whatever reason I’m confident I can make new friends, and maybe I’d turn to an app like yours, so thanks for your efforts!