This was a tough read, honestly anyone going through this for whatever reason, is definitely in a tough spot. They're taking failure with the full intent of learning from it, I think they'll bounce back.
Rise and fall of our first startup, Epiclist
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Re: Rise and fall of our first startup, Epiclist
#12A truly epic writeup of the building and closing of a startup...and it's especially a must-read for anyone hoping to go into the content-creator/provider route. This is a good line: > Observing the user behaviour we have realised that there is no community feeling in the app. People simply did not share a common interest to create networks with new people they did not know, because everyone had different personal goa…
> I love reading great stories once in awhile...but it's not a daily need. I don't build a habit for it. And Epiclist, being just an app as opposed to a website, even when I want to discover great stories, there's more friction to discover those stories via a narrow app like Epiclist than there is by just opening up Facebook/Twitter/Google.
This was the first thing I wondered about their product as well, how would you "passively" consume the content others created? Some kind of integration with normal content channels (weekly e-mail, matched to personal interests, or the option to follow individual feeds of others) would be necessary for me to keep interacting with it. Just another app I might look at every few months and go "hey, this was cool", browse a bit and forget again.
How to make money from it is a whole other problem, I didn't get from the article what the plan was for that.
Re: Rise and fall of our first startup, Epiclist
#13A truly epic writeup of the building and closing of a startup...and it's especially a must-read for anyone hoping to go into the content-creator/provider route. This is a good line: > Observing the user behaviour we have realised that there is no community feeling in the app. People simply did not share a common interest to create networks with new people they did not know, because everyone had different personal goa…
> I love reading great stories once in awhile...but it's not a daily need. I don't build a habit for it. And Epiclist, being just an app as opposed to a website, even when I want to discover great stories, there's more friction to discover those stories via a narrow app like Epiclist than there is by just opening up Facebook/Twitter/Google. This was the first thing I wondered about their product as well, how would yo…
Hey guys, Stan here, co-founder of Epiclist! Thanks for the comments! @detaro, we have been running a be-weekly newsletter and integrated with social services. While it has increased retention, it was still hard to maintain it as you mention as well. Focusing on several cities to curate weekend getaways was really helpful to boost engagement in this cities, since people could discover experiences to do a trip within a day or two! I hope that someone can nail the "weekend getaways", which is a growing market in itself! Let me know if you have any other questions!
Re: Rise and fall of our first startup, Epiclist
#14A truly epic writeup of the building and closing of a startup...and it's especially a must-read for anyone hoping to go into the content-creator/provider route. This is a good line: > Observing the user behaviour we have realised that there is no community feeling in the app. People simply did not share a common interest to create networks with new people they did not know, because everyone had different personal goa…
Thanks for pointing this out, @danso! We can't stress on this enough: Focus is key to create a successful product!
Stan | Epiclist
Re: Rise and fall of our first startup, Epiclist
#15A very informative heartfelt write up. Lots of great insights from battle-hardened entrepreneurs here. Thank you.
thanks @joyrider!
Stan | Epiclist
Re: Rise and fall of our first startup, Epiclist
#16This was a tough read, honestly anyone going through this for whatever reason, is definitely in a tough spot. They're taking failure with the full intent of learning from it, I think they'll bounce back.
thanks, already on the way bouncing back! :)
Stan | Epiclist
Re: Rise and fall of our first startup, Epiclist
#17Really great story for entrepreneurs to read, about the day to day difficulties of starting up a business. Hardest part is trying to coordinate the group and be able to work together on the same goal. And that's tough, because culture is the driving factor of how your start-up business will develop. Your product is your team.
Re: Rise and fall of our first startup, Epiclist
#18Really great story for entrepreneurs to read, about the day to day difficulties of starting up a business. Hardest part is trying to coordinate the group and be able to work together on the same goal. And that's tough, because culture is the driving factor of how your start-up business will develop. Your product is your team.