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You may simply build a product that nobody wants.
As opposed to building a product that lots of people want, but can't use because it didn't scale? (Scaling costs money)
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How to get your first 100k active users
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Hey Anne, my qns is with regards to getting a forum started. I see that Winnie have great topics discussion with questions asked and answered by users. For a new forum, there are bound to be empty-room syndromes. How did you guys manage to kickstart discussions in the beginning? Is it all organic or is there some growth hack involved? This qns have been bothering me a while and I can't seem to get any good readings a…
Hi there, I can try to answer this question from a user perspective. I was an early Winnie user in their public beta and it's one of my top two favorite startups that has launched in the last couple of years. Initially it did feel like an empty room, but this was before the ability to start discussions with other users and ask questions. Initially you could only add reviews of places. I remember adding a couple of re…
What's your other favourite recent startup? Sounds like you have something specific in mind. Just curious
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That's the one! Any feedback and suggestions are appreciated!
Looks interesting but I don't have a Facebook account :/
The dependency on Facebook is kind of unfortunate, as it excludes those who either don't have a Facebook account, or for various reasons do not want to use it to sign up for services. I am myself in the latter category, but went with it as I wanted a single login, and saw it as the best alternative at the time - got some more about that in the 'why Facebook?' section on the site.
Would really like to provide a solution that could work without login, but I'm kinda clueless on how to solve this in a good way, that allows for the creator not knowing what has been checked off or not, as well as allowing others to both check and later - perhaps even on another device - uncheck items :/
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#134Interesting use of the word "users".
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Yea if you play around you can really make an app look like native. Even in desktop it's difficult to figure out web apps wrapped under electron when they are done right..
> Even in desktop it's difficult to figure out web apps wrapped under electron when they are done right.. Name one.
Telegram desktop
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It's not really like winning the lottery. There's a lot of different kinds of promotional features they can give you, with different levels of publicity. You just have to make a high quality app that does something useful or new (or a good game), and ask their editorial team if they can promote your app. They'll usually give you some kind of promotion on the store. It's "editor's choice" and the other front/center fe…
and how do you actually contact the editorial team?
If you look around there are ways to reach them. The author of A Dark Room made a thorough post on this on Reddit but he’s since taken it down; maybe there’s an archive.
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#137Best takeaways from the article (no particular order): - Retool ads as a way to test for and identify demand. - Bait people with truly useful content where they're already looking, and then direct them to your app. - Simple changes in wording or flow of UX can increase shares dramatically. - Get featured in app stores. How? - Integrate with latest device features being pushed - Adhere to vendor design standards - Ema…
The point about native is that it’s more likely to win over Apple/Google editorial teams for getting featured. And getting featured is an absolutely massive growth opportunity which you can optimize for.
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Hi there, I can try to answer this question from a user perspective. I was an early Winnie user in their public beta and it's one of my top two favorite startups that has launched in the last couple of years. Initially it did feel like an empty room, but this was before the ability to start discussions with other users and ask questions. Initially you could only add reviews of places. I remember adding a couple of re…
What's your other favourite recent startup? Sounds like you have something specific in mind. Just curious
A company in Chicago called Tock. It's a ticketing and reservation/table management service for restaurants started by one of the founders of Alinea and Next.
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#139"Grow even before you launch" and "Go big or go home" really resonate with me. We were able to sign up a few thousand people to our new product waitlist through two main channels: exhibiting at conferences and answering questions on Quora. In the past, I would have just done a small beta with friends, but I guess I'm getting a little wiser over the years :) Going big from the beginning is really a tough one. I alread…
I get the idea of building your users/interest before it event exists but I personally am not 100% on board with that idea especially if the product doesn't exist yet. And I know who am I, nobody. But as a person who hears about some service like "We'll help you get hired by these new methods of looking over resumes" great. sign me up. I sign up "Sorry we're in private beta at this time." like what? Why did I Go thro…
Yes, it does seem unethical. IIRC these techniques were discussed at length in HN in the 'early days' of the tech startup 'boom' (or at least the early days of HN).
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#140Very interesting perspective w.r.t going native. Does that mean you would advise to use Swift/Obj-C & Java/Kotlin as opposed to React Native?
If you have the choice, yes. You'll regret React for many reasons but you are so, so much less likely to be featured with a React app, even a great one. Suck it up and learn Swift/Kotlin (not that hard) and if you can get your app featured that's a cool 10-20k installs for free.
Sorry, but this is bad advice.