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While perhaps an interesting mechanic in larger cities, the core feature of this product will ensure minimal adoption in rural towns like mine. User will instal
by TheCraiggers 12y ago
While perhaps an interesting mechanic in larger cities, the core feature of this product will ensure minimal adoption in rural towns like mine. User will install, see there are no active chats, create one, never get a response, and uninstall.
Perhaps add the ability to expand your area?
- jiggy2011 12y agoIt might make sense to define the area based on population density rather than just geography.
- pjc50 12y agoDo it K-Means-style: group users geographically targeting a particular population in each chat. As a bonus you can make some nice visualisations as a result. (I'm reminded of a friend of mine trying to use OkCupid from Orkney, finding only four people using it within half a day's travel)
- wellboy 12y agoThat's an excellent idea, I was thinking about how to fix this problem. I think starting with a radius of 5 miles and increasing it until users can see the chatrooms from the closest 100 people would solve all that.
- jiggy2011 12y agoYes, but you probably want some cut off. It might be better to see a shorter list of people who are reasonably close rather than 100 people who might not even be in the same country.
- wellboy 12y agoHmm, I see your point, but isn't it better to have content on the app with people a bit farther away instead of "no content of people close-by."
- jiggy2011 12y agoIt depends really on what the purpose of your app is. I would normalise your data somehow against a population map, so distance in sparsely populated areas is weighted differently to dense urban areas.
- rakoo 12y agoThat would actually be interesting to learn about people who have a much more different lifestyle than people in your direct area !