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I created https://CoWriteStory.com/ last year, it is a platform for people to cooperatively write stories. I was sending lots of private messages to r/WritingPrompts/ users, and got tons of positive feedback but reddit blocked my account and keep blocking my new accounts. it is a good product but like lots of developers I failed at marketing and attracting users!
Any idea why reddit blocked you?
I built http://start9.io three years ago - the idea was to somehow manage to show video game publishers that a 'professional' vintage gaming platform was something that could attract users. I wanted it to be the Netflix of the retrogaming. Unfortunately, I never managed to find cofounders that were as much motivated as I was - each one I worked with was working on it as a hobby more than anything else, and I usually…
Makes sense. What kind of help you are looking for in a cofounder? Technical or business?
if you read indiehackers there are a lot of stories that go like "we found a high traffic keyword, did a lot of seo and make xxxx from ads/subscriptions/sales etc" the issue with this approach is that the top 1-3 links on google serp gets more traffic than all other links combined. I'm currently at #6-7 with 200 clicks a day and 3% ctr. Not really sure how to climb up beyond that level..
In 2010-11, I worked on lug-it.com to let people carry stuff in their luggage for others. It leveraged FB's social graph to engender trust. I just wasn't ready to market and grow the user base because my cofounder decided that he was going to be the "vision" guy and I was going to do all the work.
I launched a couple of iOS apps one of which got thousands of downloads in a month but since it was very niche (BLE/iBeacon related), I stopped working on it.
The problem with it is that it is far, far too complicated. I'll iterate through it again when I use it to learn React and simplify everything.
I created https://CoWriteStory.com/ last year, it is a platform for people to cooperatively write stories. I was sending lots of private messages to r/WritingPrompts/ users, and got tons of positive feedback but reddit blocked my account and keep blocking my new accounts. it is a good product but like lots of developers I failed at marketing and attracting users!
Any idea why reddit blocked you?
Not sure if it qualifies, as I actually managed to make money for a few months, but: MyGuestmap (now long dead) - started it in 2007, put Google Ads and some donation button. It allowed people to create their own little maps and embed them on blogs, where people could place pins and say something. Got to 40k maps in a few months (it somehow got viral in a forum, then went from there). I even made $1k in ads one month…
I know it's a rule; if a user can add content, someone will add porn, but why add porn to maps? Were people putting a pin in and commenting with a naughty pic? What does that mean?
I built Uncover ( https://uncover.cc/ ), a service to track your favourite authors' newest releases. It's monetized with Amazon affiliate links. I wasn't expecting much from it; my goal was to break even on server costs and domain, so ~20$/month. To date it has made $0* (*technically it did make ~$2 in revenue, but Amazon deactivated that account, I had to sign up for a new one. So my actual received total is $0) Ult…
Amazon emails me directly whenever me favourite authors release a new book.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cat-game-aquarium/id56449037...
I've had this iPad app up and running for about 4 and a half years - I don't think I've broken even yet on the amount I paid an artist for the graphics for the app. I did the coding for it myself.
RobotBridge PDF Conversion as a service (API)
https://market.mashape.com/jefflinwood/robotbridge-pdf-conve...
This service is pretty straightforward, and has users, but doesn't really cover the server costs. On my list of things to do is to switch it from PhantomJS to headless Chrome, and then to migrate the server.