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This is like THE network effect app that just does not get traction in my book, I built one just like it a few years ago. Push a button, get people to hang out

This is like THE network effect app that just does not get traction in my book, I built one just like it a few years ago. Push a button, get people to hang out with you. Problem is that people meet up using chat, that’s the core thing you have to be better than. Better, faster, simpler or easier than WhatsApp/Messenger/iMessage/SMS/FB Events/Instagram/Snapchat. Those things have extreme network effects and you probably will not dislodge them, I would aim somewhere else. This exact app is detailed in one of NFX’s write ups as the “wrong” approach. If you still want to try getting users, throw it on Product Hunt and see if it takes. The only momentarily successful version of this was Down to Lunch - and only because they harvested your entire contacts list and then messaged every single person at once to get them using the app. They’re gone now. It was simply easier to group chat your friends “yo movies?”.

ryansam 6y ago
Simply I strongly believe I can do it. My friends and I have encountered this problem over 100 times in the past two years and I just think there has to be a better solution than texting or snapchat. This problem bugged my friends and I so much there has to be a market of people who want something better.
- yoyonamite 6y ago
  I feel like many iterations of coordinating events has been tried as evidenced by different comments discussing previous solutions that have been built by someone else or by themselves. Why has this idea failed previously? How will your iteration be different? I'm not naturally a social person but I did go through a phase where I was more social and ended up organizing events. I never thought using texts, whatsapp, etc. to be much of a hassle. I'm also close to a couple of friends that are very social and I've seen them plan and coordinate events. It's never seemed like a hassle and they've never mentioned it as a problem. Solving your own problem is good advice, but the pitfall is that your own problem may not be one that is shared by many people. I've had to learn this lesson as well. I would run some of my early app ideas by my friends and their response would basically be, "why would I want to do that?" I'm not saying this idea will not work, but definitely talk to the people you're messaging and find out what they think. Best of luck.

ryansam 6y ago

Simply I strongly believe I can do it. My friends and I have encountered this problem over 100 times in the past two years and I just think there has to be a better solution than texting or snapchat. This problem bugged my friends and I so much there has to be a market of people who want something better.

yoyonamite 6y ago
I feel like many iterations of coordinating events has been tried as evidenced by different comments discussing previous solutions that have been built by someone else or by themselves. Why has this idea failed previously? How will your iteration be different? I'm not naturally a social person but I did go through a phase where I was more social and ended up organizing events. I never thought using texts, whatsapp, etc. to be much of a hassle. I'm also close to a couple of friends that are very social and I've seen them plan and coordinate events. It's never seemed like a hassle and they've never mentioned it as a problem. Solving your own problem is good advice, but the pitfall is that your own problem may not be one that is shared by many people. I've had to learn this lesson as well. I would run some of my early app ideas by my friends and their response would basically be, "why would I want to do that?" I'm not saying this idea will not work, but definitely talk to the people you're messaging and find out what they think. Best of luck.