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For your type of service, I would initially limit the locations available to your users (and build your base from these users) and have a signup form for other

For your type of service, I would initially limit the locations available to your users (and build your base from these users) and have a signup form for other locations (and open them up as soon as you have enough ‘seed users’). How are you going to build up from a base of users? Get all your friends & family to use the service & leverage existing platforms.

rukshn 14y ago
Yes that sounds a good idea, but the hardest part is that i'm facing is to get the initial users. It's like launching a messenger, like what's the use of whats app/ snapchat if there you are the only one using it? this is a similar kind of a problem to solve how to get the initial few people using what you make if it need a network effect Thanks for that answer
- itsprofitbaron 14y ago
  Whatsapp grew because it positioned itself as a BBM for All Phones. It was free on its biggest platform (in terms of having to attack) BlackBerry which encouraged people to tell their friends on the iPhone to get it - which they did, and they held promotions giving it away, something they still do. It still is the greatest platform to cross-text, in my opinion (I actually had it initially free on BlackBerry and have since paid for it on the iPhone). For your initial users you want your friends & family to use it ideally and then encourage them and the users they acquire to import their “graphs” to it & then contacting them to join your service. If you can’t get your friends or family to use the service – go to a local university etc and hand out flyers (if you don’t want to do that, post a job listing on the universities website and get a student to hand them out) Once you’ve done that, ask the local universities when the next “fair” is for freshers and attend it with your ‘service’ giving out flyers, having a stall there etc and acquiring users.

rukshn 14y ago

Yes that sounds a good idea, but the hardest part is that i'm facing is to get the initial users. It's like launching a messenger, like what's the use of whats app/ snapchat if there you are the only one using it? this is a similar kind of a problem to solve how to get the initial few people using what you make if it need a network effect Thanks for that answer

itsprofitbaron 14y ago
Whatsapp grew because it positioned itself as a BBM for All Phones. It was free on its biggest platform (in terms of having to attack) BlackBerry which encouraged people to tell their friends on the iPhone to get it - which they did, and they held promotions giving it away, something they still do. It still is the greatest platform to cross-text, in my opinion (I actually had it initially free on BlackBerry and have since paid for it on the iPhone). For your initial users you want your friends & family to use it ideally and then encourage them and the users they acquire to import their “graphs” to it & then contacting them to join your service. If you can’t get your friends or family to use the service – go to a local university etc and hand out flyers (if you don’t want to do that, post a job listing on the universities website and get a student to hand them out) Once you’ve done that, ask the local universities when the next “fair” is for freshers and attend it with your ‘service’ giving out flyers, having a stall there etc and acquiring users.