Just for the fun of it does anyone want to throw out some new names for the site? Lenguajero is pretty bad in English. I think we fell into the trap of speaking Spanish everyday and thinking that it just sounded cool (and a bit witty). Ideas???
What it feels like to fail
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Re: What it feels like to fail
#22Startup failure != you as a failure.
It's 2 separate events. Associating startup failure as you as a failure is a very slippery slope; because eventually you won't get out of bed because everything you can possibly do when you get out of bed is going to result in failure anyway, so why get out of bed. Remember - 2 separate things :)
And as others have mentioned, many other startups wished they had 7K of passionate users.
Keep tryin! :)
Re: What it feels like to fail
#23Startup failure != you as a failure. It's 2 separate events. Associating startup failure as you as a failure is a very slippery slope; because eventually you won't get out of bed because everything you can possibly do when you get out of bed is going to result in failure anyway, so why get out of bed. Remember - 2 separate things :) And as others have mentioned, many other startups wished they had 7K of passionate us…
Thanks jayliew. I don't actually think I'M a failure. I was just trying to express the gamut of emotions that one feels when a startup doesn't work out.
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
I also feel that perhaps a name change (I have difficulty recalling it, even now) and a revenue model, perhaps capitalizing on the most loyal users, and word of mouth advertising, could really gear the website forward. I wish I would have known about it when I was more into Spanish.
capitalizing on the most loyal users seems like a good idea to me. if they could make a business on it and you could skim off the top they'd be incentivized to grow it pretty quickly.
Sorry, I'm not quite sure if I understand your comment.
What would you like to see them doing? If anything, I'll learn from this and hopefully, the founders might find a good idea or two on these comments.
Re: What it feels like to fail
#25how to get over failing: move on.
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#26Just to clarify. I'm not shutting down Lenguajero. It will keep on running (at least I'll still use it to practice my Spanish :)), and maybe we'll come up with an idea on how to monetize. One of the challenges we faced in monetizing the site was monetizing our international members. A really big chunk of our users are from Central and South America. When it comes to advertising we don't make any money off these users…
I'd kill for $1.00 / click on any traffic. $0.05 is still pretty good.
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#271. Your domain is, in my opinion, terrible. We spent three minutes trying to pronounce it.
2. "We have >7,000 users, and lots of them are still super active in the community." That's actually great start! Why aren't you trying to expand?
Re: What it feels like to fail
#28Just for the fun of it does anyone want to throw out some new names for the site? Lenguajero is pretty bad in English. I think we fell into the trap of speaking Spanish everyday and thinking that it just sounded cool (and a bit witty). Ideas???
secondspeak.com is currently unregistered, and makes sense to me as a name for a site for people learning a second language.
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#291. Your domain is, in my opinion, terrible. We spent three minutes trying to pronounce it. 2. "We have >7,000 users, and lots of them are still super active in the community." That's actually great start! Why aren't you trying to expand?
"All told we are probably out ~$2,000 and one years worth of work."
Clearly all businesses should be ROI positive after $2000... let's give up!
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#301. Your domain is, in my opinion, terrible. We spent three minutes trying to pronounce it. 2. "We have >7,000 users, and lots of them are still super active in the community." That's actually great start! Why aren't you trying to expand?
Yeah, I'm getting that a lot on here. I think it is a hard name for people who only speak English, or speak English and other languages that aren't latin based. (Our Spanish speaking members really like the name.)