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Ask HN: For 10 years I've been trying various projects, still clueless

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Re: Ask HN: For 10 years I've been trying various projects, still clueless

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Blitzer - hangout application, you put a pin on the map that is active for up to 1 hour and then you can meet people for anything. The problem was the geolocation, because it is hyper-geolocated so I would need to get many people in one small place, like one city. Mimic - if you know what TikTok has duets now, Mimic was supposed to be that before TikTok existed where you imitate a person, mimicking person. The proble…

I see your issue: marketing. Each of your products can succeed if you spent 99% of your time/effort/money on marketing. Blitzer seems simplifier. You pick a city, a local one would be easier. You join local groups, connect with local media, setup local events, talk to people locally. Put up fliers with qr codes. Maybe you have a big prize somewhere in the city gl and you get everyone excited to look for it in some ge…

This: these products are all community products, the value of them is in the community, and therefore almost all of the hard work is in building a community. If you don't like working with people... better to build a utility product, or a B2B, or something that doesn't require mass adoption and therefore large amounts of community building work.

Re: Ask HN: For 10 years I've been trying various projects, still clueless

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Some areas don't depend much or at all on language such as games and puzzles e.g. Rubik's Cube from Hungary. However creating a viral game is hard. Some niches are easier and less demanding such as daily puzzles for seniors or bedtime story sites for parents with young children just use Google translate or it's API.
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