I built a location-aware social platform as a solo founder - now I need real feedback
Hey Indie Hackers,
I’m Fotios, a solo founder and Creative Technologist from Greece.
Over the past months I’ve been building Wedbeas, a location-aware social discovery platform designed around one idea: helping people connect not only with people nearby, but also with places they’re visiting or considering moving to.
I wanted something that sits somewhere between social discovery, local communities and relocation tools — without simply becoming another generic social network.
So far I’ve built and shipped features including:
Local and Traveller modes
Location-based discovery and radius search
Profiles, likes and matches
Real-time chat
Social posts, comments and reactions
City-based feeds
Maps and location-aware features
Relocation-oriented tools
Shared music listening inside chat
Web + Android versions
I’ve been building it mostly solo using an AI-assisted development workflow, with React, TypeScript, Supabase and a lot of rapid prototyping, testing and iteration.
The technical side is not the biggest question for me anymore.
The big question is: would people actually want this?
I’m now at the stage where I need people outside my own circle to use it and tell me what feels useful, confusing, unnecessary or missing.
I’m especially interested in feedback on:
Is the core idea immediately understandable?
What feature would make you come back regularly?
Would you use something like this before travelling or relocating to another city?
What would stop you from signing up?
I’m not looking for polite feedback — I’d rather hear what doesn’t work.
Wedbeas: https://wedbeas.com
If anyone here is also building a social/community product, I’d love to compare notes on getting the first real active users without spending heavily on ads.
Thanks!
Solo builder here too, also past the "does the tech work" stage and squarely in the "will anyone actually want this" stage — so this resonates a lot.
On your question about first real users without ad spend: I'm currently testing direct outreach to a narrow, specific audience (people who already show clear intent for the exact problem I'm solving) rather than broad posting, and it's slower but the signal feels more honest — fewer polite "cool idea!" reactions, more actual silence or actual follow-up questions, which is the contrast I actually want to see.
Question back on Wedbeas: of "local mode" vs "traveller mode," which one are you finding pulls people back more? My guess would be traveller mode has a natural expiration (the trip ends) while local mode needs an ongoing reason to open the app — curious if that's matched your early usage or if it's the opposite.
Happy to compare notes on the outreach side if useful — direct message works for me.
You’ve built a lot around the location layer, so I’d be less interested in whether each feature is useful individually and more in whether people immediately understand the one reason to use Wedbeas.
That distinction could affect both sign-up and repeat usage.
The fact that you've shipped this much as a solo builder is impressive. But "would people want this" is actually the measurement question most builders skip - they measure features shipped and months of work. You measured the output correctly (lots of features) but the hard part is measuring the boundary: what specific outcome does each person join for, and are they coming back for that. When you measure what people are actually trying to solve (moving to a new city? making local friends? finding places?), you find three different products inside one app. Most location platforms die here - they try to be everything. The ones that work pick one measurement: "did they find what they came for?" and strip away everything else.