Puzzle of the day - How to grow a geo-based social network (from scratch)
Hey all,
I'm Mai, founder of jadoo, a geo-based social network, and I would like to ask for your help.
jadoo is a mobile app that enables people to share content with the people around them. It basically works like this: uploaded content (a 'jadoo') is located on the global map, right at the location the user was in when he\she uploaded it. Other users discover a jadoo (automatically) when they are within its range (150-300m) and can chat with its creator. A jadoo can be text, image, or both (audio will be added soon). So... it's kinda like digital graffiti.
My challenge is that in order to be successful in one city I need a critical mass of users there to start with. That seems quite hard to get and I haven't figured out yet how to do that.
Will be grateful to hear your thoughts on this!
Also, any feedback and questions are more than welcome.
Check jadoo on - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.njadoo
Cheers!
Think tourism as a start, talk to bussiness that are in tourism to participate
Next option would be google maps contributers of high level..
or something like geo gamers... in a way some of them are exactly that.. (or their game is your app..)
or content creators of certin types... connecting to bussiness probably lets say bakers that have a big instragram presence... meetup orginisers, or fb'ers that publish a lot..
like you didn't specify a content path you want to take it to, but these are wide engouth to give you a starting seed of many types....
Thanks for that!
I didn't mention that but I'm currently directing more to art/poetry/confession direction.
Geo-gamers was an idea as well but I guess that there are already big apps in that niche (GeoCache).
I contacted some street artist in my area and posted some of their content, but I guess that that's not enough.
I don't want ads yet, and I don't know if cotacting bussiness will be the right way (and there aren't any users they can sell to, also).
Your trying to kick-start a thing, low hanging fruit a make sense to me, business have commercial interest, they are there and available in a known schedule and for free they usually are happy to co-operate with a possibility of free marketing, you can try for small/tiny ones that are 1-3 persons.. people who run such studios, courses, work spaces, people who work in co-spaces and are happy for chats...
Getting users is state at an empy screen and keep coming back sounds harder to me than selling excitement of listing
Otherwise you need to find niches of people looking for phisical community, maybe older / retired people, you can try community centres... Or phisical oriented activities like gardening...
Also maybe just go for smaller areas at the start
Task bunny had some video content on how they started and grow..m I believe they were really close to just going down streets and knoking on doors...