It isn't 2006 anymore obviously. If you want to create a viral social website in 2019 you will have to bribe Facebook, Twitter and Google with hundreds of thousands worth of ads within those 10 weeks and you will still never get the same reach you could get for free in 2009. The internet, since around 2014, has stagnated into a few protectionist tech world powers that pretend to be everything else.
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#12For many people today Internet = Facebook. Probably it would have more sense to start with a FB group instead of rolling out own reddit clone.
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#13It isn't 2006 anymore obviously. If you want to create a viral social website in 2019 you will have to bribe Facebook, Twitter and Google with hundreds of thousands worth of ads within those 10 weeks and you will still never get the same reach you could get for free in 2009. The internet, since around 2014, has stagnated into a few protectionist tech world powers that pretend to be everything else.
There's still some cool stuff going on, if you go out of your way to find it... https://github.com/nehbit/aether
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#14This reminds me that fateful question that we, software engineers, use to hear from our moms/dads/family: "Why don't you start a facebook?"
This amuses me to no end, I have never got that question, the closest thing was "you do websites right? do you know how to hack someone's Facebook?"
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#15Don’t give up after the first try. I understand it costed you money and time. Money is what you need to survive.
Do you have second thoughts? Dilemma?
Like going back to it and trying again, this time slow and during your free time (=when not working) ??
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#16“Good news! Congratulations! You’ve got 10 weeks of learning and the amount of money lost is not so large! You’ve got subjected to a stressor and survived. Therefore, becoming stronger. Courage, experience, growth!”
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#17In my mind social networks are probably one of the hardest things to crack. People are only attracted to it if there are already lots of other people and activity there. It's like a chicken and egg problem and your job is how to make one of them appear out of thin air
Now I want to make Facebook stylised fabergé eggs.
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#18> I wasted 10 weeks of my life and $1900
There are people spending more to learn less. Seems like good value to me. Best of luck with your next venture, if you're reading.
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#19In my mind social networks are probably one of the hardest things to crack. People are only attracted to it if there are already lots of other people and activity there. It's like a chicken and egg problem and your job is how to make one of them appear out of thin air
One of my favorite stories is how the founders of reddit would create all the posts themselves, but submit them under fake users to give the appearance of popularity.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/06/reddi...
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#20Honestly, they could have done much worse than waste 10 weeks and $1900, so they may have been one of the lucky ones.
Six years and $18 billion.