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One that I'm working on myself and too afraid to post publicly. The people on this site are not my target audience either.

ps. There's no one on it but me.


Working on a social network for neighbors. It's basically Reddit + craigslist, where subreddits are cities.

Need someone to help me solve the chicken/egg problem.


What's you differentiator from Craigslist or NextDoor?

Are you focusing on transactions (i.e. buy/sell/help needed), or are you focusing on social (donation requests/lost dog/transit discussion)?


It's possible you could just be looking for someone to motivate you. If that's the case, I'm in a similar boat, got a project, but I get lazy sometimes, I could use feedback to help me go forward but I can't find anyone to even look at my work.


When creating spacial geography point in sql server, the longitude comes first (lng, lat). I always thought it would be latitude then longitude.

Interestingly, some points that I've inserted passed the validation, but later I realized the values were swapped when I tried to query nearest neighbor and the points were no where near.



Such a simple service does not require registration. Assuming you're mentioning this for reasons of logs/security/liability reasons, I'd probably just throttle. Maybe auto delete after 1hr after upload complete and no download attempts made, so server is always clean.


You want to send a file to a friend, maybe a word file, maybe a movie. So probably up to 4GB in size. Something that could be too big for email, or too large for imgur to not compress it (images).

I'd advertise my other products, so it would be a loss leader for me.


Yes, it will fail for other reasons.


Which are?


Because the input variables are so different depending on your personal circumstances. Depending on how clever you accountant/tax professional is, you could be paying a very different amount in taxes/interest.

I might have misunderstood your question, as you didn't say which apps and how they suck. Then you start talking about UI and I get lost.


https://www.zipbash.com social network based on zipcodes. I was thinking it could be alternative to nextdoor where you can't post outside of your neighborhood. I also made registration optional, so you can post and comment anonymously. Also wanted to test out if people would pay $1/month for premium features I'd make in the future (private messaging...).

Anyway, most feedback I got was negative, so that's depressing. Maybe if I got proper feedback I could modify it for better.

I'm still working on it, there's a big change coming, not sure the outcome will be. Hopes.


What were the complaints?


Mostly about how the UI sucks, which I agree with but I don't have a creative UX skills. I'm mostly a data/business logic person.


Fix the UI, and start paying mturks to post topics from various locale's FB groups to get you off the ground.


Kindness doesn't solve this problem.


Not alone, no. But it doesn't hurt, either.

Suicidal urges often last a very short amount of time (ten minutes or so), and for some percentage of people, a kind word at the right time absolutely does make the difference. It may be a small percentage, but it's worth being kind to all.


I agree Kindness on its own may not do much but shaming, bullying and ostracizing are very deleterious.

I'll put it this way - it certainly won't hurt.


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