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It started as an app for the University of Waterloo Facebook hackathon but it's taken off since then. We launched 4 days ago. We have seen decent growth. So wha

It started as an app for the University of Waterloo Facebook hackathon but it's taken off since then. We launched 4 days ago. We have seen decent growth. So what is it? Adore.ly lets you adore a friend on your friendlist and your identity stays anonymous unless they adore you back. We're looking for feedback on everything from interface, to troll and creep protection. Our questions are: 1) How do we keep growing? Is it launching features, or focussing on promotional stuff? 2) Do we focus on users or focus on monetizing? When do the priorities switch? 3) What are the challenges you think we face? 4) What do you like about the app? What don't you like? Thanks guys for your feedback.

petervandijck 16y ago
- Love love the basic idea. - Focus on promotion. - Get users, don't monetize until you're at least a year in. - Don't launch features. Make your existing feature better (by keeping the creeps out, increasing its viral factor etc, all the backend stuff that's actually really hard, versus adding comments and likes, which is easy.) - You can slowly add little interactions, but stay away from commenting, private messages etc for a loooong time, that's not where your value is. - Again, don't add "standard" features like comments, profile pictures etc, since that will just dilute your positioning.
- vicngtor 16y ago
  "increasing its viral factor" Care to recommend a few?
r00fus 16y ago
One of the major challenges I see is that casual users won't be rewarded if there's no love coming back. How do you keep the edge-users (who may not any replies) engaged and feeling... adored?
- vicngtor 16y ago
  """How do you keep the edge-users (who may not any replies) engaged and feeling... adored?""" We have thought about doing something similar to likealittle in terms of messages but our messages are too personal. What do you feel that would keep the users engaged while they are waiting to be adored back? (We can't force the other party to adore you back.)

petervandijck 16y ago

- Love love the basic idea. - Focus on promotion. - Get users, don't monetize until you're at least a year in. - Don't launch features. Make your existing feature better (by keeping the creeps out, increasing its viral factor etc, all the backend stuff that's actually really hard, versus adding comments and likes, which is easy.) - You can slowly add little interactions, but stay away from commenting, private messages etc for a loooong time, that's not where your value is. - Again, don't add "standard" features like comments, profile pictures etc, since that will just dilute your positioning.

vicngtor 16y ago
"increasing its viral factor" Care to recommend a few?

r00fus 16y ago

One of the major challenges I see is that casual users won't be rewarded if there's no love coming back. How do you keep the edge-users (who may not any replies) engaged and feeling... adored?

vicngtor 16y ago
"""How do you keep the edge-users (who may not any replies) engaged and feeling... adored?""" We have thought about doing something similar to likealittle in terms of messages but our messages are too personal. What do you feel that would keep the users engaged while they are waiting to be adored back? (We can't force the other party to adore you back.)