sagark1992
Joined 8 years ago
Joined 8 years ago
About the traction, getting users has been hard. I made some mistakes in the beginning, I targeted the wrong audience. I got wrong feedback from family, friends, co-workers etc. Then I started cold messaging readers and writers on other writing platforms.
From the feedback I gathered 60% of the users asked for an app. They would like to read on mobile. The website is mobile friendly but still they want an app.
For writers mostly the feedback was that they don't want to create stories on website which is not popular. There are plenty of other places where they would write where they can get more visibility.
Its kind of chicken and egg problem. Still I cold messaged a lot of users through social media and got some users and stories.
This is my first side project so I am learning and having fun. :)
I also made a similar side project during quarantine: https://messagink.com/
I thought there should be a place to archive, discover create interesting conversations or create fictional conversations (text stories) since most app around this space don't let you and are too expensive.
What I like about discord is the full text search - its super fast. Is your chrome extension public, really interested in it.