All about apps: Has anybody ever grown an app?

[canone]

I'm curious if anybody on here has ever grown an app startup and what his marketing strategy behind it was.
I know that spending a lot of money on marketing won't bring you far.
Having a service that people want is key of course.
But how did you boost the initial downloads?

We're building a "marketplace" app and the users are dependent on other users being on the app.
And we're creating a waiting list after the signup process and will go live when we exceed a threshold of users in a "zone".

Let's exchange ideas.

 

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[polaroid22]

Currently developing a website, cause I have some experience in that field. I guess websites arent that hot anymore versus apps. But I figured when the website is fully developped, I can make an app that does the same, but I already know all the logic for it, so I guess I can build it faster (never build an app before).

But yeah was also thinking how can I grow this site/app so I figured I need to implement some social functions into it, like sharing results with someone, inviting people to the site/app functions etc.

 

[Mr.Nichan]

Check out this blog post with its accompanying YouTube video by Lenny Rachitsky about staring and scaling marketplaces, I’m in that area too and I found that article super useful.