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It got press, but no real traction (3k-15k visits/mo).
Is there any opportunity here? Any ideas to keep out of deadpool? Or is it time to man-up and pull the plug?
what if you can turn it into a tool for government elected officials to engage with their constituencies - make it a tool that senators/their aides/whomever can ask questions of their supporters and collect feedback. You make it effectively a 'facebook for government' engagement?
why do you want to deadpool it?
Can you expound on the tech. Here is an idea: what if you can turn it into a tool for government elected officials to engage with their constituencies - make it a tool that senators/their aides/whomever can ask questions of their supporters and collect feedback. You make it effectively a 'facebook for government' engagement?
Congress members have their websites, email list of their supporters, would need to offer something they didn't have.
You have not really given much information about what steps you have attempted to gain traction. From the outside looking in I would try to polarize the audience around hot topics like gun control and abortion.
Steps to gain traction were focused on making the product viral (send to friends, embed vote on site/facebook, etc).
Also partnerships with other organizations, for example, democracyinaction.org had an email your reps widget (powered by govit).
Let people sign in with Twitter as well as Facebook (which you have already). Encourage users to share the votes on FB, Twitter, etc (and make it easy for them to do so). Maybe have a weekly 'Featured Vote' or something. There are a lot of possibilities with a tool like this, it just needs some guidance. Giving people a way to "be heard" on issues that they care about is valuable.
Can you expound on the tech. Here is an idea: what if you can turn it into a tool for government elected officials to engage with their constituencies - make it a tool that senators/their aides/whomever can ask questions of their supporters and collect feedback. You make it effectively a 'facebook for government' engagement?
I like the idea, but think I'd need more users before I could attract the attention of senators/aides/other. Congress members have their websites, email list of their supporters, would need to offer something they didn't have.
You're getting 3k-15k visits/month currently? I would encourage you not to kill it off. The design could use some revision, but if you have the users, keep them. Any idea how many of your users come back on a regular basis (weekly/monthly)? You have a good opportunity here. Let people sign in with Twitter as well as Facebook (which you have already). Encourage users to share the votes on FB, Twitter, etc (and make it…
Agree that giving people a way to "be heard" has value, just need to get the process right.