How I Built a Social Network App by Myself
Daniel
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I’m a developer in my day job, and I love to build things from scratch. Initially, I thought the first step would be moving into a product management role and then starting a startup. However, finding a job as a product manager didn’t work out, so I began building things on my own and pivoted a few times. For the past year and a half, I’ve been working on a social blogging app that now has over 100 users.
Such apps rely on social virality to grow, and I was wondering if anyone here has some tips. The app lets you create private blogging groups or post publicly, and it features three main post categories: cooking, travel, and blogging. Currently, I’m learning with a small group of users about the use case of group blogging (circles).
If anyone has any suggestions, I’d love to hear them!
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Gurkaran Singh@thestarkster
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Wow, building a social network app solo is quite the feat! Honestly, my hat's off to you. Maybe focus on incentivizing users to invite friends, because what's a social network without, you know, the social part? Also, ever considered using data science to tailor your app's features to user preferences, kind of like "Her Ideal Match" does for dating profiles? Good luck, and keep at it!
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Congrats on building this solo! Maybe introduce a reward system for users who invite friends referrals can really help with growth.
That's impressive! Have you thoughts about adding a feature for sharing posts outside the app? Could help with virality.