You should try to find and validate your idea and business model (unless you plan to just build users and sell the platform). I don't know where in the word yo

You should try to find and validate your idea and business model (unless you plan to just build users and sell the platform). I don't know where in the word you are (looks like London?), but some places offer seed funding for validating business ideas. You'll probably do better contacting the London startup scene, a quick Googling shows a lot of resources: http://startupguide.fastmail.fm/ http://startupguide.fastmail.fm/ http://www.up.co/communities/uk/london/ http://www.up.co/communities/uk/london/ http://www.tech.london/resources http://www.tech.london/resources Worst case scenario you can sell the tech itself, or it's a good showcase of your skills (pretty decent return on 500 pounds either case). Going head to head with other social network heavyweights is a tough proposition - you have to think hard and discover what exactly is that Grado does better and delivers value to users. Why would I want to use Grado instead of Reddit, Twitter or whatever? More importantly: there are already lots of comments and submissions in Reddit and Twitter, how are you going to compete with that?