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How are you going to sell it? There's an age-old issue with making money with social networks. Either you allow people to be free-loaders and make it totally fr
by striking 12y ago
How are you going to sell it? There's an age-old issue with making money with social networks. Either you allow people to be free-loaders and make it totally free, or you sell your users to keep it afloat.
Why do I want it? It seems like... Instagram. Just, that. Let me illustrate by analyzing the main value prop:
"Must is a free lifestyle photo recommendation app for discovering, capturing, and sharing new experiences across the world."
So:
* free: (above)
* lifestyle: so like, anything from awesome to anodyne? I would think you'd only want to reward things that other people think are cool, as a social network.
* recommendation: you can't sell personalization as a product. You can try after five years of having a product, maybe. But as an MVP you have *literally no data.*
* capturing, sharing: so, Instagram.
* new experiences: so, just photos? Or do you have a cool trick up your sleeve? This spot could be your saving grace: if you find a new way to capture events like Snapchat did with 7-second videos, then *everything else written here is invalid.* Otherwise, *yawn.*
* across the world: these three words are wasting my time. Don't waste time. With the advent of the Internet, basically every startup could say this. Why don't they? Because it's a waste of time.
Hopefully this doesn't come across as ranty and horrible because I would like to see you succeed. (In fact, I'm being somewhat nice. If you caught a YC partner on a bad day with something like this, you might get something a little worse. ;)
I wish you luck.