Apply HN: Let's – Meet amazing people, do fun stuff

You mentioned how you're different from a bunch of dating apps -- do you see your app as primarily competing in that space? My first reaction was instead that if successful, your app would do more to disrupt the Meetup.com space than say, Tinder.

Haha, I appreciate your feedback and will take it under consideration. The intention was that when you select to do something its always like: Let's ... grab a drink, grab a bite, watch a movie, go running.

but I can see what you mean. Another name we played with was Friendify but seemed needy which is not really true about the audience.

Maybe if you see it as a Logo it might be less annoying: http://postimg.org/image/rbbasbaqr/

This is the current logo, the red is used as the theme of the app is in red.

In the future I will make sure to put it in "Let's" quotes. ;)

Hi! I have actually spoken to a number of different people regarding this and a vast majority liked and would use something like this. I do understand where your question is coming from so I am going to add some context to their responses.

1.) Some people said it would be awesome to use when they travel to meet up with people at conventions and or other tourist that are also traveling to go site-seeing or enjoy company together.

2.) Another person said, because she is 'single' and most of her friends are in a relationship it is often bothersome for her to go on third wheel or fifth wheel outings and she doesn't really have any friends that are not in a relationship in her circle.

3.) An answer we heard often was from people that just moved to a new place and/or got a new job they said it would be an great tool for them to get to meet people and or enjoy company during their lunch breaks.

Right now many of them did say that they were using other social apps to meet people mainly Tinder. At the same time they all felt that Tinder was not made for this purpose but they did not know of a better tool.

Before I started on development on this idea I run some surveys in order understand if people would use this. Not to mislead you I surveys about 60 people and the response was say 45 out of 60 responded that they would use this app, the demographic surveyed was 19-30 singles that have used mobile social platforms like Tinder.

User acquisition is always a little daunting and considering this is a user driven app it is always very important.

My game plan is to: 1.) Target the specific market above via Facebook and other advertising means, primarily people that have moved recently. (Targeting as a social app, not dating as Facebook restricts this)

2) Social Validation - I intend on getting bloggers with long reach in the travel, dating and social genres in our launch cities to talk about the app and give their opinion in order to reach their followers. I expect high conversions in a short time frame from this. (This can go both ways I understand that)

3) I plan to start launching city by city in order to acquire users rapidly in a single market. This is to avoid churn from having a location based app in which users are unable to find enough people near them.

4) I would like to take large communities and target them specifically; for example large corporations, universities and the like. I intend to target them because these potential users are usually going to spend a significant amount of time close to one another and will have a level of comfort with each other which can help drive high activity on the app and organic growth.

If you have any suggestions I would appreciate your input as user acquisition will play a key roll in my success and it will be challenging.