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It's extremely saturated, and in my mind, completely pointless. I decided not to include any social features in the site and make it as straight-forward as poss

• mechanical_fish 18y ago
  Ah, I carefully avoided writing "useless". I said "useless by themselves". You've gotten some use out of them, but hammering further on the publicity front may yield diminishing returns. On the other hand, if you built a couple of desirable new features that test well with samples of your target market and then prod the publicity machine with your new and improved version 2.0, it might work better. Of course, here we recognize why the app universe is filled with colossal apps full of trendy social features: adding one feature after another is the simplest way to get a series of marketing hooks. If you're pledged to minimalism life is more difficult. Try subtle changes in the defaults or the styling. Try building two versions: the elegant and the feature-gaudy. Try to add just one new feature, but make it so awesome that everyone wants to try it at least once. Build a second, slightly related app that helps drive traffic to the first.