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Will work for traction
In the last 6 months our team has shoestringed a bookmarking tool for power users. The project is stable beta, but now we have a problem:
0. No connections in the valley.
1. No money for advertising.
2. Both of us are introverts. Unfortunately this excludes social promotion.
We are looking to make a project for you in the next 3 to 24 months and we'd like to have publicity for our project in return.
- maxwin 14y agoOne suggestion. You should put a link to your bookmarking tool. There is no shame on promoting yourself in the right context. Or at least put it in your profile.
- len 14y agoweve been working on the starving artist problem (aka building distribution for your work). get in touch.
- Whitespace 14y agoI fail to see how this would work out. If you get enough good publicity -- the kind that'll keep you busy for the next couple of months with users/scaling/networking opportunities -- how will you be able to fulfill your promise to take on extra work? And if being introverts is preventing you from networking/marketing it yourselves, how do you think you'll handle success?
- zebra 14y agoThe tool is almost ready - it needs ~15 days work to be 100% ready. Scaling is not a problem - different users go to a different servers (this site is not very social). Success for me is to have money for me and my family. I think that an individual can be successful without being public.
- jfoster 14y agoAs other comments allude to, you need to grow yourselves in order to grow your product. I know it's not easy and feels unnatural, but the benefits will stick with you the rest of your life. I'm a bit introverted myself and I've been working on fixing it.
- zebra 14y agoI tried to fix this. I went to a shrink. I'm over 30, I'm not 16. This is the rason I choose this unusual route of action.
- willgdjones 14y agoHey, I'm a student in the UK at UCL, and I'm lucky enough to be president of the Entrepreneurs Society. I've got a few projects that I need some help with, and I would love to trade publicity (most likely it will be in London) for help with development. Email me on president@uclentrepreneurs.com if your interested and we can talk some more. Thanks, Will