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Sounds interesting for sure, but still hard to imagine without seeing a demo or illustration. Do you have a website? How many people in India use Paypal? My im

by revorad 15y ago

Sounds interesting for sure, but still hard to imagine without seeing a demo or illustration. Do you have a website? How many people in India use Paypal? My immediate and extended family gives a lot to charity but I don't think any of them have heard of Paypal. Have you tested your product with some people in India? Don't assume it will be a big hit. I'm still not clear what problem you're solving though.

hbansal 15y ago
It's still in infancy, pitching in a competition here for $5k seed money (it's on Friday), with the first prototype. Not launched a website now, but it's in the pipeline, will be out soon. How many ppl in India have PayPal? Good ques, had let a survey out, will show you the results soon. We r planning to channelize it through established trusts, distribute to their followers (QR codes on their sites) Any other feedback or marketing idea???
- revorad 15y ago
  Sorry, I'm not able to give concrete feedback or marketing ideas because I'm not clear about your product. What problem are you solving?
  - hbansal 15y ago
    Actually, we have 5-6 ideas, this was one of them, we r launching as a prototype, other ideas are big and harder to be sought out, in terms of marketing etc. They are basically related to creating social communities instantly for solving a local/global problem, and provides suggested measures for solving that. Eg: There is a trash zone near your house, what will you do? Just fire in our app, and immediately, you will get a following of people, who think the same as you. So, our such ideas will be good for solving problems...basically we want to brand ourselves as a community (company) that actively creates products that initializes social changes and helps people solve them, using latest mobile technologies. How does this brand sound to you? Good/Bad/Depens If Bad/Depends, what changes/value should we pitch on Friday, to our brand image, to get $5k seed money, to start a startup, and (maybe) bring a revolution.
    - revorad 15y ago
      That reminds me of The Point. Have you seen this talk by Andrew Mason of Groupon? - http://www.justin.tv/c3oorg/b/272030648 http://www.justin.tv/c3oorg/b/272030648 I think your marketing problem will be solved if you stop thinking so much about your product and brand and instead start thinking more about your users and their problems. Have you thought of starting by focusing on one specific type of social problem? What if you helped people all over a city or state report and rally against garbage dumping near their house? If you just focused on that, you might get some momentum and actually change things, which will then give you the credibility and userbase to do other things. But I'm still not clear how technology helps here.

by revorad 15y ago

hbansal 15y ago

It's still in infancy, pitching in a competition here for $5k seed money (it's on Friday), with the first prototype. Not launched a website now, but it's in the pipeline, will be out soon. How many ppl in India have PayPal? Good ques, had let a survey out, will show you the results soon. We r planning to channelize it through established trusts, distribute to their followers (QR codes on their sites) Any other feedback or marketing idea???

revorad 15y ago
Sorry, I'm not able to give concrete feedback or marketing ideas because I'm not clear about your product. What problem are you solving?
- hbansal 15y ago
  Actually, we have 5-6 ideas, this was one of them, we r launching as a prototype, other ideas are big and harder to be sought out, in terms of marketing etc. They are basically related to creating social communities instantly for solving a local/global problem, and provides suggested measures for solving that. Eg: There is a trash zone near your house, what will you do? Just fire in our app, and immediately, you will get a following of people, who think the same as you. So, our such ideas will be good for solving problems...basically we want to brand ourselves as a community (company) that actively creates products that initializes social changes and helps people solve them, using latest mobile technologies. How does this brand sound to you? Good/Bad/Depens If Bad/Depends, what changes/value should we pitch on Friday, to our brand image, to get $5k seed money, to start a startup, and (maybe) bring a revolution.
  - revorad 15y ago
    That reminds me of The Point. Have you seen this talk by Andrew Mason of Groupon? - http://www.justin.tv/c3oorg/b/272030648 http://www.justin.tv/c3oorg/b/272030648 I think your marketing problem will be solved if you stop thinking so much about your product and brand and instead start thinking more about your users and their problems. Have you thought of starting by focusing on one specific type of social problem? What if you helped people all over a city or state report and rally against garbage dumping near their house? If you just focused on that, you might get some momentum and actually change things, which will then give you the credibility and userbase to do other things. But I'm still not clear how technology helps here.