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Sounds like you're just getting started. Time to focus on execution. 1. You have "sign in with Twitter" but not "sign in with Facebook". That's an obvious feat

by lacker 14y ago

Sounds like you're just getting started. Time to focus on execution. 1. You have "sign in with Twitter" but not "sign in with Facebook". That's an obvious feature if you're focused on viral growth. 2. It's okay to do nonscalable things at the start. Convince a dozen of your friends to post on socialatte every day, by any means necessary. Then listen to their feedback and implement their suggestions. 3. When someone declines to sign in via twitter, they go to a 404 page. Fix that. 4. Drop that donate and sponsors junk. It's taking up real estate, looks crappy, and you're never going to make a noticeable amount of money before you get big anyway. 5. Let me sign in with an email and password. 6. Build an iOS app. It makes a lot of sense to post a picture of coffee from your phone. More sense than a website. 7. Find a cofounder. The biggest problem at this stage is that you are likely to give up before putting enough effort into it. A cofounder will keep you working. Keep working - you have only just begun.

sdwrage 14y ago
Thank you for the advice :) It is deeply appreciated. As you guessed, I am just starting out. I felt out what I thought might be a good idea and trying to allow it to grow into its own. Actually a few people have already stated that they would like facebook login so I may need to rework my account model. I don't really have many users right now so this might be a good time to pivot. As far as donations and sponsors, I agree with you on the donations but confused how I will be able to generate revenue at the start. I currently am a freelancer and funding would allow me to work on this full time but, again, this may be too early in the idea to think about so you may be right on both of those fronts. I am currently looking into Appcelerator's Titanium for the mobile app at least for a prototype. As for co-founder, my brother has a stake in the idea and is a bit of a designer/illustrator and has presented quite a few good ideas that we coalesced into what the site is currently. As for scalabilities sake, we were going to look at Node.js as a technology as we may have a lot of realtime features on the website but, again, I didn't want to work that far ahead as I knew there would be some pivoting of my strategy. Thank you very much for your insight :)

by lacker 14y ago

sdwrage 14y ago

Thank you for the advice :) It is deeply appreciated. As you guessed, I am just starting out. I felt out what I thought might be a good idea and trying to allow it to grow into its own. Actually a few people have already stated that they would like facebook login so I may need to rework my account model. I don't really have many users right now so this might be a good time to pivot. As far as donations and sponsors, I agree with you on the donations but confused how I will be able to generate revenue at the start. I currently am a freelancer and funding would allow me to work on this full time but, again, this may be too early in the idea to think about so you may be right on both of those fronts. I am currently looking into Appcelerator's Titanium for the mobile app at least for a prototype. As for co-founder, my brother has a stake in the idea and is a bit of a designer/illustrator and has presented quite a few good ideas that we coalesced into what the site is currently. As for scalabilities sake, we were going to look at Node.js as a technology as we may have a lot of realtime features on the website but, again, I didn't want to work that far ahead as I knew there would be some pivoting of my strategy. Thank you very much for your insight :)