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I don't feel the "pain" of wanting more friends, so maybe I'm not your target market. This probably makes me a bad person to take feedback from, but since givin

by gbelote 15y ago

I don't feel the "pain" of wanting more friends, so maybe I'm not your target market. This probably makes me a bad person to take feedback from, but since giving opinions is fun... The problem for me isn't not knowing how to meet new people (e.g. going to interesting meetups), it's getting past the social anxiety of leaving the house and trying to make friends from strangers. At a glance, your app doesn't help solve that -- it looks like another kind of meetup aggregator (albeit a more casual one). While it may be something else and/or technically be a perfectly great service to help me, it doesn't seem like it helps me get past the irrational mental resistance of going somewhere uncomfortable. So when I look at your page and see headers like "GROOOVY FOR IPHONE" and "WE'RE LAUNCHING SOON" and see what looks like a list view of a calendar, it doesn't get me excited. I eventually noticed that clicking the little circles lets me look at different "pages", but that feels like work and I lost interest quickly.

iamjonlee 15y ago
The app was directly intended for users to have a need or want to meet people so it might be a little different in your scenario as you've mentioned in your first sentence. We don't have any solutions as to getting past the social anxiety of leaving the house and making friends with strangers because that's something that needs to be personally overcome by the individual. Here's an example: If John Smith considers himself overweight and would like to loose weight, he needs to mentally prepare himself to begin dieting and working out. Nothing will work if John himself refuses to make the first step. If it helps, users can also have their friends RSVP for the event and attend the event together. We realize that the event list that we have on the first page seems pretty generic and so doesn't trigger a lot of excitement. We'll see if we can do something about that. Our next revision will probably be to get rid of the circles completely- it seems that there's just too much information right now. Thanks for the feedback!

by gbelote 15y ago

iamjonlee 15y ago

The app was directly intended for users to have a need or want to meet people so it might be a little different in your scenario as you've mentioned in your first sentence. We don't have any solutions as to getting past the social anxiety of leaving the house and making friends with strangers because that's something that needs to be personally overcome by the individual. Here's an example: If John Smith considers himself overweight and would like to loose weight, he needs to mentally prepare himself to begin dieting and working out. Nothing will work if John himself refuses to make the first step. If it helps, users can also have their friends RSVP for the event and attend the event together. We realize that the event list that we have on the first page seems pretty generic and so doesn't trigger a lot of excitement. We'll see if we can do something about that. Our next revision will probably be to get rid of the circles completely- it seems that there's just too much information right now. Thanks for the feedback!