Adriaan Bouman
@adriaanb
This is great! I am going to signup. Your storytelling really works :)
Hi Luke, thanks for your feedback!
"Questions that came to mind- Should we be around as long as the ones here?"
What do you mean, exactly? Do you mean how long your startup is alive or published/visible on the website?
"What specifically is measured and how is it measured?"
This should be much more clear! Happy to hear this. We measure percentage social media growth. So, the fewer followers you have, the better chances you earn crowns and these are being used on the (in dev) leaderboard and used as a weight.
"Where are the new startups?"
They are all pretty new and on the leaderboard, you will be able to sort/filter on country; founded date; categories; crowns; etc. etc. I think it will become more useful and clear once the leaderboard is up and running. We are still in beta and need some startups to test and earn crowns. Since we don't have many startups listed, it will be easier to earn crowns. The more startups join the harder it becomes...just in case you want to join ;)
Thank you Maxim, so valuable and clear!
"How does it order the projects? (after reading the about page I understood it's growth based)"
I changed this now to daily follower growth instead of a percentage. I hope this will make it more clear.
"What's the "community" of a project?"
This has changed to "followers" because it was indeed confusing and the wrong way to name it.
"How do I participate?"
There is a page where you can submit your startup. But this could be much more promoted on the homepage. I am thinking of using some of the 'cells' to add some call to actions.
"Why should I care as a product maker?" & "Why should I care as a no-product-maker?"
This one is my favourite because it is damn hard to answer. It is a chicken vs egg indeed, and when product makers don't care about it, it will not work. Of course, it is about free eyeballs for the makers, and hopefully, none-makers find it interesting to discover new projects. When it works, it could be interesting for investors and have educational value.
"Why is daily relative growth rate a good metric to sort those projects?"
The main idea is to give early-stage projects a leg up. With percentage growth this is possible, and they will benefit, but also make space for new projects. If 'new followers' would be the metric, the bigger ones will always end on top. You can win crowns and get promoted on the leaderboard, so it becomes a competition where the smaller ones most likely win. Kind of a gamification/ gimmick, but hopefully fun and motivating.
"Segments pie chart makes simple numbers look complicated IMHO"
Thank you! I am going to fix this asap.
"The page layout somehow makes me think I'm on a gambling/scam/advertising site or smth, not sure. Probably cause it's dark + has projects arranged kinda banner like"
Very good and I can see this now. Also, the logos make it a bit too commercial maybe? Going to play with this a bit.
Thanks so much, Maxim, really great questions and helpful.
Yeah, the idea of the percentage is to give newcomers a leg up. In the end, the site is more geared towards new projects with a small following. Wouldn't expect the established projects to list themselves, they have more important stuff to do :) But, would be cool if some of the small projects will become big! Would be nice to know and share what their strategy was and maybe could do some interviews in the future.
Currently, I have some really small projects (2 followers) and I am going to create a 50 followers cliff/threshold. I already notice that going from one to two is 100% growth (see today) and that isn't really useful and fair to others. Will fix this tomorrow.
Started to redesign the page with your comments. Stil WIP but happy to add the graphs on the homepage. Will have a hover which shows the graph + percentage growth. Have to play a bit with this.
Great Ryan, I was afraid it doesn't communicate well on it's own. That's why I added the modal, but isn't sufficient. I am going to improve this. I will also remove the PH reference. I thought it was fun, but doesn't add much. The platform is to give insights about startups growth on social media over time. I should focus more on the 'why do some do well and what did they do', so it becomes more educational. Great validation Ryan!
Now I am super curious about your project ;)
Oh oh 😮 now I’m in trouble :D - I’ll actually be looking into ways to make that thing happen because I really can’t stop thinking about it!