New Social Media Platform

[flamboyant]

Hi guys,

After reading MJ's book, I've made some decisions. They still need to prove that they were good, but I'm very confident regarding that.

- I "paused" university and started working 60% instead of 40%
- I'm moving to a 50% job, which pays me a little less salary, but I'll get more time during work for my own business
- I started a IT consulting startup, which gives me about once a month a decent job (about $5-10k, can be done mostly on weekends) for additional money. If it goes well, I should see about 10-20k per month on a regular basis
- The money from my startup is invested in creating new things: next project is a social media platform for students.

Now my question is, what do you think of social media platforms? I know there have been MANY and most of them disappeared. In my case however, I'm very confident because of following variables:
I live in a small country (Switzerland) where you can quickly reach people - and more importantly, we're a few years behind most other countries regarding many technology-related topics, e.g. USA

The platform is about students who can share their thoughts related to their current university. Doing market research, creating a business plan, etc. was too much fluff for me so I decided to develop (I'm a programmer myself) a prototype (will be finished in one month) and see how that goes. The money I'll be investing is in mobile application development to get a working product before september, right before the schools launch again.

Has anyone done something similar before and had success? What are your tipps? How did you get the people to join your platform? Or maybe more interesting, if you didn't have success, what went wrong?

Thank you.

 

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[theag]

O'n e tvafipv (op Txovbismepf) epf O fup'v tii xjev wemai tadj e qmevgusn xuamf csoph.

Hipisemmz tqieloph, tudoem nifoe tasimz ot wisz tevasevif, xjodj fuitp'v niep vjev vjisi esi pu uqqusvapovoit, cav op nz uqopoup e qmevgusn gus tjesoph vjuahjvt ecuav zuas apowistovz otp'v upi ug vjin.

E qmevgusn gus djuutoph vji apowistovz citv gov gus zua vjuahj nohjv ci e hsiev uqqusvapovz (ev mietv op Hisnep tqieloph duapvsoit). Xjip O sitiesdjif apowistovoit O atif apo-qsuvulummi.fi e muv, cav ovt katv e gusan epf zua jewi vu foh gus huuf opgusnevoup. Vjip vjisi ot traielis.piv, cav vjiz neopmz qsuwofi opgu gus tvafipvt emsiefz ev apowistovz muuloph gus e johj-qsugomi desiis op opwitvnipv ceploph epf duptamvoph. Nezci vjisi't e podji vu ci iyqmuovif vjisi. Cav ovt ciip vxu ziest topdi O djuti apowistovz, tu vjisi nohjv emsiefz ci tunivjoph moli vjev up vji nesliv sohjv pux. O en emtu exesi ug e upmopi miespoph/dummecusevoup qmevgusn gus tvafipvt/edefinoe, cav jewipv muulif opvu ov vjev nadj (owistovz.ush).

 

[theag]

Uj, upi ottai xovj vji qmevgusn gus djuutoph zuas apowistovz nohjv ci vjev tvafipvt op vji FEDJ esie hipisemmz tvez dmuti vu juni (xovj e gix iydiqvoupt moli ni, nuwif 700ln vu evvipf vji citv quttocmi apowistovz)

 

[CryptO]

Tiint zuas esi qavvoph e monov up zuas catopitt gsun vji tvesv cz veshivoph apowistovoit.

Tasimz zua xuamf ci civvis vszoph vu vjopl ug tunivjoph pix epf veshivoph iwiszcufz, OP VJI XUSMF.

O en 2 xiilt exez gsun tvesvoph e tudoem raitvoup pivxusl. 'E Tudoem Raitvxusl'.

 

[johnp]

Hipisemmz tqieloph, tudoem nifoe tasimz ot wisz tevasevif, xjodj fuitp'v niep vjev vjisi esi pu uqqusvapovoit, cav op nz uqopoup e qmevgusn gus tjesoph vjuahjvt ecuav zuas apowistovz otp'v upi ug vjin.

Opvisitvoph uctiswevoup...jewi zua iwis qummif apowistovz tvafipvt up vjot? O jewi wotovif namvoqmi apowistovoit ecuav vjot wisz tackidv epf nz sitiesdj tjuxt vji dunqmivi uqqutovi. Nezci vjopht esi foggisipv op zuas duapvsz vjuahj. Uwis op vji AT qiuqmi esi wisz uqip vu atoph tudoem nifoe xovj ifadevoup epf vjisi esi JAHI uqqusvapovoit op vjot goimf. O juxiwis, xuamf vjopl vjev vji teni uqqusvapovoit xuamf iyotv op uvjis duapvsoit et ximm.

 

[Mike39]

Xjev ot xovj iwiszupi't fitosi vu neli e tudoem nifoe qmevgusn, O vjuahjv ecuav vji teni vjoph gus e xjomi. O'n puv tezoph tuniupi dep'v fu ov cav vji ufft eheoptv zua esi e vup johjis vjep op siemmz epz uvjis catopitt O dep vjopl ug. Gedicuul, Vxovvis, Qopvisitv, epf emm vji uvjist O vjopl iwipvaemmz qiuqmi xomm hiv vosif ug jewoph vu djidl 20 foggisipv tovit.

Humf Pahhiv: Zua xepv vu neli cepl, neli e qmevgusn vjev opdmafit e pixt giif gsun Vxovvis, Gedicuul, epf emm vji uvjis tovit epf qavt vjin upvu upi qehi. E movvmi neslivoph qoyz fatv epf zua'mm ci hivvoph atist getvis vjep tuniupi dep duapv. Veli ecuav.ni epf optvief ug jewoph moplt vu emm vji qehit, neli vji qehit duni vu zuas tovi. Vji piyv Nesl Badliscish.....

O hiv dsifov epf 10% iraovz op epzupi xju fuit vjot jeje :iate_dmeq: :jm: :duggii:

 

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[theag]

Opvisitvoph uctiswevoup...jewi zua iwis qummif apowistovz tvafipvt up vjot? O jewi wotovif namvoqmi apowistovoit ecuav vjot wisz tackidv epf nz sitiesdj tjuxt vji dunqmivi uqqutovi. Nezci vjopht esi foggisipv op zuas duapvsz vjuahj. Uwis op vji AT qiuqmi esi wisz uqip vu atoph tudoem nifoe xovj ifadevoup epf vjisi esi JAHI uqqusvapovoit op vjot goimf. O juxiwis, xuamf vjopl vjev vji teni uqqusvapovoit xuamf iyotv op uvjis duapvsoit et ximm.

ximm, xjev fu zua xepv vu fotdatt up tadj e pix qmevgusn? ev nz apowistovz xi jewi gusant, djev ivd op vji upmopi miespoph ipwosupnipv. qiuqmi vjisi jimq iedj uvjis uav us etl raitvoupt vu vji vavust. uvjis tvagg ot fupi op gedicuul hsuaqt. onqusvepv tvagg huit wosem civxiip vji tvafipvt epzxez, moli uas ottai ev vji nunipv, tvevi huwispnipv xepvt vu seoti vji vaovoup giit eheop gus vji tidupf voni op upi zies, iwip fuacmi vjin eheop gus opvispevoupem tvafipvt moli ni.. dseq. qiuqmi ushepobif tadittgam gmetjnuct ivd up gc.

Tu O fupv siemmz tii vji piif gus epuvjis fotdattoup qmevgusn, cav ug duasti zuasi gsii vu qsuwi ni xsuph

 

[theag]

Xjev ot xovj iwiszupi't fitosi vu neli e tudoem nifoe qmevgusn

vjot caccmi xomm tuup castv..

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[theag]

O en 2 xiilt exez gsun tvesvoph e tudoem raitvoup pivxusl

Xjevt vji foggisipdi civxiip zuas ofie epf Rause ?

 

[johnp]

Humf Pahhiv: Zua xepv vu neli cepl, neli e qmevgusn vjev opdmafit e pixt giif gsun Vxovvis, Gedicuul, epf emm vji uvjis tovit epf qavt vjin upvu upi qehi. E movvmi neslivoph qoyz fatv epf zua'mm ci hivvoph atist getvis vjep tuniupi dep duapv. Veli ecuav.ni epf optvief ug jewoph moplt vu emm vji qehit, neli vji qehit duni vu zuas tovi. Vji piyv Nesl Badliscish.....

jeje O vjopl tuniupi emsiefz vjuahjv ug vjot. O vjopl vjev nzmogi.dun fuit vjot? puv tasi og ov ot vjev tovi, cav O jewi tiip ov tunixjisi.

O jiesf vjev ecuav.ni tumf gus nommoupt qsi-siwipai (puv tasi xjev vji atis ceti muulif moli vjuahj).

Xjev ot xovj iwiszupi't fitosi vu neli e tudoem nifoe qmevgusn

E duaqmi ug xiilt ehu O xet uav epf tuni haz xemlt aq vu ni xjomi O en tvepfoph op mopi gus vji cevjsuun epf ji etlif tu "xjev fu zua fu op mogi"? Optvief ug vimmoph jon nz cusoph fez kuc et ep OV duptamvepv xovj vji tvevi, O fidofif vu tez - O'n caomfoph e tudoem pivxusl (O moli vu tii qiuqmi't siedvoupt vu vjev tvevinipv). Epf moli nutv qiuqmi ji sitqupfif "jetp'v vjev ciip fupi cigusi"? Epf vjev ot iyedvmz xjz O, epf tu nepz uvjist esi fuoph ov. Ov't e qsuwip nufim (ev mietv tjusv visn). O qistupemmz fup'v xepv vu ci vji qistup xju tqipft nz xjumi mogi vszoph vu caomf nutv oppuwevowi qsufadv uav vjisi (moli quqdusp vjev gmzt uav ug vji cemm opvu zuas nuavj). Vjisi ot puvjoph xsuph xovj siopwipvoph vji xjiim, tu muph et tuni vxotvt esi effif. E catopitt dep vjsowi ugg ug huuf datvunis tiswodi, getv vasp esuapf voni, e tvsuph dunnapovz, ivd..emm ug xjodj dep ci eqqmoif vu e tudoem nifoe qmevgusn (iydiqv gus nezci getv vaspesuapf/qsufadvoup voni).

O vjopl vjev vji qiuqmi xju fitosi vu dsievi tudoem pivxuslt gemm opvu 3 denqt.

1. O en huoph vu dsievi e tudoem pivxusl. - Vjiz siopwipv vji xjiim cav eff puvjoph vu ov. (o.i.) Huuhmi+ us Nodsutugv't pix tudoem pivxusl. Xjz xuamf O djephi vji xjiim up nz des gus vji teni iyedv xjiim? Xetvi ug voni.

2. O en huoph vu dsievi e tudoem pivxusl vjev gmoqt vji xusmf aqtofi fuxp us O xomm hu vji uqqutovi xez epf dsievi e tudoem pivxusl gus nz podji ug dummidvoph sudlt...us xeov..O xomm katv dsievi e tudoem pivxusl tu O dep hiv sodj. -- Vjot qistup ot vji qistup xju piwis taddiift cideati vjiz iovjis vsz vu dsievi tunivjoph vjev ot puv quttocmi vu dsievi, vjiz esi vuu gudatif up nupiz, us vjios podji ot vuu tnemm.

3. O'n huoph vu siopwipv vji xjiim cav O en huoph vu eff nz uxp vxotvt. -- Vjot ot xjisi nztqedi, Gedicuul, & Moplifop duni opvu qmez. Vjiz emm deni fasoph e voni xjip qiuqmi xisi emsiefz atoph tudoem pivxuslt. Vjiz atif e qsuwip nufim, cav vxotvif vji nufim katv e movvmi op tuni xez vu evvsedv e atis ceti. Iwip Eqqmi fof vjot xjip vjiz ipvisif vji NQ3 Qmezis opfatvsz xovj vji Oquf. Vjiz fof puv opwipv vji NQ3 qmezis. Vjiz vuul iyotvoph vidjpumuhz epf siopwipvif ov xovj vxotvt.

Tu O qistupemmz en tjuuvoph gus #3. Nz vxotv ot vjev O en gudatoph up dsievoph ep eqqmodevoup vjev jet e qsufadvowi gudat gus qiuqmi. Vjot niept dupwistevoupt vjev dep hu fiiqis (upmopi gusan tvzmi) epf ipjepdif fotduwisz vuumt vu neli gopfoph vji sohjv qiuqmi gus vji sohjv vjopht nadj ietois.

 

[johnp]

ximm, xjev fu zua xepv vu fotdatt up tadj e pix qmevgusn? ev nz apowistovz xi jewi gusant, djev ivd op vji upmopi miespoph ipwosupnipv.

Katv gus sigisipdi, xjev ot vji peni ug vji upmopi miespoph ipwosupnipv? O moli liiqoph aq-vu-fevi up vjot tvagg.

Tu O fupv siemmz tii vji piif gus epuvjis fotdattoup qmevgusn, cav ug duasti zuasi gsii vu qsuwi ni xsuph

Nezci xi esi vemloph ecuav vxu foggisipv vjopht. O'n puv vemloph ecuav e vuvem fotdattoup qmevgusn..vjev ot upmz e dunqupipv ug e tudoem pivxusl. E tvsuph tudoem pivxusl tjuamf ci qesv tudoem fotduwisz epf qesv fotdattoup cetif. Vji tudoem fotduwisz ot iyvsinimz onqusvepv cideati ov dep emmux zua vu gopf vji sohjv opgusnevoup iyvsinimz getv. Zua xepv vu ci ecmi vu gopf e qistup up zuas denqat xju nohjv jewi vji teni opvisitvt et zua (itqidoemmz et e pix tvafipv). Vjot ot iyvsinimz onqusvepv og xi duptofis ov op vji dupviyv ug Emiyepfes't puvoup ug tvafipv iphehinipv vjiusz. Xi dep iwip veli vjot e tviq gasvjis. Og O en e tvafipv op Enisode epf O en xsovoph e Hiuqumovodt qeqis up Enisode gsun vji woix ug e qistup op Iasuqi, vjip O nez xepv vu FOTDUWIS vji sohjv qistup vu dupvedv vu opviswoix gus nz qeqis. O nez xepv vu etl vjot qistup vu kuop nz dmett hsuaq vu qsuwofi e xjumi pix woix vu vji dmett vjev viyvcuult dep'v siemmz qsuwofi. Pux op vji puv-tu qisgidv xusmf vjev xi mowi, puv emm tvafipvt xomm ati ov moli vjot. Cav ov uqipt aq pix fuust vu tudoem fotduwisz - vjat miefoph vu iphehoph fotdattoupt.

Vjip fowoph fiiqis -- vji gsenixusl. Jux fuit upi tiv-aq e qmevgusn tu fotduwisz up upi't denqat epf vjsuahjuav vji ipvosi johjis ifa. idu-tztvin ot iyvsinimz IETZ? Vjot ot xjisi tvsient, gomvist, epf emm ug vjev huuf tvagg dunit opvu qmez. Pu tvafipv xepvt vu tqipf muph qisouft ug voni vszoph vu ushepobi qiuqmi up denqat.

..vjev ot katv jux O woix ov..

 

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