There is a lot of competition in this space[1], and as someone who has a side project that is in this space I feel like I can give you some advice. (I should re

There is a lot of competition in this space[1], and as someone who has a side project that is in this space I feel like I can give you some advice. (I should really write a general blog post because I seem to be giving this advice frequently) I can't help much with the mental aspect. My service started out very similarly, the premise was someone that had some free time and wanted to find a tennis partner, a concert buddy, someone to practice their french etc. I "launched", and the immediate feedback was basically 1) There isn't anything there, so I'm not compelled to post anything. 2) I don't really want to meet strangers on the internet. You've run into 1) and you say your beta users didn't have the same feelings as 2). I'm worried you selected the wrong beta users, and you didn't catch this problem early enough. I "pivoted" by scrapping the self post idea, and becoming an aggregator. I aggregate events from several social/local event services[2], and now that people are using it, I'm getting feedback that they'd like to be able to add their own events! To summarize a lot of great feedback already, I think you should launch in a few metro areas and seed the events with events from other services. I'd also study the competition (and there is plenty of it, which is a good thing) to see what works, what doesn't, what sorts of features are expected for applications like this, etc. I'd also consider kicking the native apps and going html5. All the features you need for a social/local/mobile app are built into browsers, so why not develop once and make everyone happy? [1] Swerve on ios, upout.com, GatheringPoint, brom.ly, Everyblock, my own service impromptudo.com [2] meetup, eventbrite, active.com, yahoo! etc