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This 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 reminds me that fateful question that we, software engineers, use to hear from our moms/dads/family: "Why don't you start a facebook?"
Used to work for an agency where we often had people asking us to build their grand new idea. There would be NDAs and lawyers and dire warnings of secrecy until we finally got to the bottom of what they wanted. Basically Facebook or Google, but on a budget of about 50p and the vague offer of some stock. Unsurprisingly, we’d tell them where to go.
It was a disaster :)
This post talks a lot about the chicken and egg problem, and the inventors of Reddit faced the same problem - no one will come to your homepage for the internet if it doesn't look like the homepage for the internet. Do you know what they did? They didn't focus on one community - they faked it. Thousands of fake posts with fake comments. All scripted. Then one day they started seeing posts they didn't write and it too…
This is hilarious. Ten weeks. Ten weeks? To build a community? To build a base of dedicated users and begin to reap the network effect that keeps existing users on the site, and draws in new years? In the early 2000s, I launched something like an early "social networking" site for geek dating. We built a strong community and actually were pretty profitable with direct subscriber revenue, though it was never quite eno…
Thankfully I was about 17 years old thus had the time and energy to do it.
Although a bit harsh in writing, JustStartNoob's comment [0] is honestly a good analysis. The guy had an idea and tried to force it through as hastily as possible with the sole goal of 'making it.' Unsurprisingly, it didn't work out. [0] https://www.reddit.com/r/juststart/comments/dkyq92/how_i_was...
> "I spent stupid money throwing shit at a non-stick wall, realized the wall was non-stick, so started spending money throwing shit at a different non-stick wall instead". This is the worst possible interpretation of OP's venture, and must be written by a 12 year old if $1900 is "stupid money" Edit: I'm not saying that $1900 is not a significant amount of money to many people in the world. But it is NOT a lot of mone…
In 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
Earlier quoted context omitted.
For the benefit of others, the totality of that comment is much richer and more thoughtful than the snarky snippet you quoted.
I didn't add the "snark" to that snippet, and no, the rest is no better. > If OP had done any research, he would have realised "Russian Reddit clone" was not a good idea with a real likelihood of success. Way too ambitious. > If OP had planned, he wouldn't have stumbled around aimlessly for 10 weeks and would have understood success, especially when growing any type of "community" based project, takes time. I've now…
How long might it take for a self-sustaining community to emerge? Surely longer than 6 weeks unless you pour a massive amount of money into ads or other pump-primers.
To be honest, the approach did resonate as fairly “aimless” to me. You may have a different opinion and that’s also ok.
Edit to add: “throwing shit against a wall and seeing what sticks” is an idiom of sorts. It does not mean that the literal thing being tried is being called “shit”.
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.
There's still some cool stuff going on, if you go out of your way to find it... https://github.com/nehbit/aether