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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

by anjc 7y ago

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 pasted 60% of the comment, and none of it is useful or actionable and is all rather insulting..."stumbled around aimlessly", "not a good idea", "throwing shit at a wall", these are trash statements and no budding entrepreneur should listen to them. I'll also add that OPs approach is a typical "move fast and break things" method of finding a product-market fit, and it seems to me that OP did stumble upon a product and a market in a discussion platform for cancer patients. They need a monetisation strategy, but for somebody to turn around and say this is "shit" and was "aimless" is useless and shouldn't be encouraged.

sokoloff 7y ago
The point of having a plan and realistic estimate (or even considered guess) of how long it might take for a community to take off is that it might preclude 2 pivots after less than a month each, especially if nascent traction emerged in one of them but no lightning bolt of monetization spontaneously emerged. 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”.

by anjc 7y ago

sokoloff 7y ago

The point of having a plan and realistic estimate (or even considered guess) of how long it might take for a community to take off is that it might preclude 2 pivots after less than a month each, especially if nascent traction emerged in one of them but no lightning bolt of monetization spontaneously emerged. 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”.