eamonncarey

I'm struggling to see the logic in this. I know Twitter have struggled to make music work previously. Not convinced that a hardware approach is the best way forwards. This may just be a straight investment, but even still - it feels odd.

Delusion level - Quixote...

It felt like there was something uniquely Twitter about favourites. Likes and hearts seem quite generic...

This is lacking in any real detail, which is always a massive red flag. Also the amount of equity they want teams to give away is insane.

I use Lastpass. It's reasonably light touch and easy to manage. With that said, Dashlane's new password changing feature is making me wonder if it's time to make a change...

Totally agree. There's something quite mean spirited about this.

This is really useful. I'll be curious to see how the scammers tab expands over time...

Go and visit them. If you look at any of the bigger marketplaces or on demand apps in the market at the moment, most of them started by getting a few people signed up on the demand side. They did that by physically going out and talking to them, demoing the product, explaining why it works, what the benefits are and frequently physically taking them through the signup process. If you do a bit of relationship building with your supply side providers, you'll be amazed at the results. Assuming your idea is good, has demand and is easy to use, those service providers you talk to will be some of your biggest advocates. They'll talk to their colleagues and friends in the industry and hopefully tell your story on your behalf. You effectively want to create advocates on the supply side. Also, that personal relationship will allow you to get invaluable feedback that you frequently wouldn't have thought of.

I've just invested in a marketplace in the Middle East. Our product is almost ready for beta. We've been out talking to the people who will be our service providers for the last month (and we probably won't launch for another month), showing them screenshots, talking to them about what they need and what would help them and generally gauging interesting and getting numbers signed up. We've had some amazing feedback and have introduced a few small features into the apps on the basis of the most common pieces of feedback.

Go out and talk to people. Hit the bricks. I guarantee you the results will be immeasurably better than direct mail, adwords or anything else in the early stages.

maybe remove the requirement to be registered before seeing the chats? I just clicked in to see the France/Honduras chat, but I can't see any activity. I'm much more likely to sign up and participate if I think I'm signing up for something that's more active.

Promoted tweets by location, targeted to people talking about specific games. FB ads, Adwords - targeted to places that people talk about games. Go on Twitter and football forums and tell people why they should use it. Be friendly. Talk to any local or tech media folks you know and see if they can help you promote it.

Getting people to the site won't be your biggest issue. Getting people to sign up and take part once they're there will be. There's no real call to action on the site. It's not particularly visually appealing. Could you recruit some friends/family to generate some activity and some buzz? Right now, there only appears to be one person posting. It needs to look busier than that for people to decide to go there rather than Twitter, IRC or wherever else they are chatting about whatever game is ongoing at that time.

It was designed by a woman. Mari Sheibley was responsible for large chunks of the deisgn - http://www.marisheibley.com/

I was so tempted to headline this 'Persona non AppGratis'