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I'm probably in your target market. I host/organize pickup games in several sports. I attend lots of other pickup sports. Finding other games, and getting peopl

I'm probably in your target market. I host/organize pickup games in several sports. I attend lots of other pickup sports. Finding other games, and getting people to come to my games is a constant struggle. Kudos for shipping something, that's awesome! Feedback: Network effects are working against you. If lots of events are on here, it might be a useful place to search for sports. If lots of people search for sports on here, it might be a useful place to recruit people to my events. Without either, this provides no value to me. Product: * As a person who wants play a sport, this app is not useful to me. There were no "events" nearby me to join. * As a person who organizes pickup sports with friends, I'm not sure why I'd use this over my favorite messaging app to organize. * As a person who wants to recruit new people to join pickup sports game, this app isn't useful for me. I help "advertise/promote" my pickup games on email lists, FB pages, and a meetup page. Creating an event here doesn't seem worth my time since I'm not convinced that it'll bring in people to play with. Technical * Facebook login didn't work for me, it said some error about a bad location or something. * Loading is painfully slow. * It crashed after I tried to create a "I want to play sports" event.

arikr 9y ago
To OP - read this carefully as this is great, honest, kind feedback. Also, to OP don't fixate on the technical feedback - the non-technical feedback here is even more important (assuming your goal is a product people want). To wsetchell/the feedback giver - kudos on giving great, honest and kind feedback.
- wsetchell 9y ago
  thanks :)
- hammadnasir 9y ago
  Yes, indeed it is a great feedback and I'm taking it into total consideration.
eloff 9y ago
All of these can be summed up as the chicken-and-egg paradox, or network effects. You need users to make the app useful, to get more users, to make the app useful. Look at how other business get around that, e.g. facebook launched to just one market first, Harvard students, then slowly expanded out one market at a time.
- hammadnasir 9y ago
  Yup! 'the chicken-and-egg paradox' is the thing here. I'm going to focus on how to increase the number of users from a local market first.
hammadnasir 9y ago
Thanks for this detailed feedback. The app is still in beta so we are working hard to get rid of any technical issues.
diehell 9y ago
I am developing something similar that localise to my region, can i pick your brain about this? If i could PM you, it would be great :)
hammadnasir 9y ago
is there any way to contact you?

arikr 9y ago

To OP - read this carefully as this is great, honest, kind feedback. Also, to OP don't fixate on the technical feedback - the non-technical feedback here is even more important (assuming your goal is a product people want). To wsetchell/the feedback giver - kudos on giving great, honest and kind feedback.

wsetchell 9y ago
thanks :)
hammadnasir 9y ago
Yes, indeed it is a great feedback and I'm taking it into total consideration.

eloff 9y ago

All of these can be summed up as the chicken-and-egg paradox, or network effects. You need users to make the app useful, to get more users, to make the app useful. Look at how other business get around that, e.g. facebook launched to just one market first, Harvard students, then slowly expanded out one market at a time.

hammadnasir 9y ago
Yup! 'the chicken-and-egg paradox' is the thing here. I'm going to focus on how to increase the number of users from a local market first.

hammadnasir 9y ago

Thanks for this detailed feedback. The app is still in beta so we are working hard to get rid of any technical issues.

diehell 9y ago

I am developing something similar that localise to my region, can i pick your brain about this? If i could PM you, it would be great :)

hammadnasir 9y ago

is there any way to contact you?