Over at Facebook they've been taking lots of hits because of the way they now are trying to get everyone to live in public, rather than in private. Dan Gillmor deleted his Facebook account because of it: http://mediactive.com/2009/12/12/facebook-starting-over/
But who is best positioned to take advantage? I think it's Black Box Republic http://blackboxrepublic.com who has an easy-to-figure out private system for letting people talk about intimate subjects. Here the two cofounders tell me about the system in their home town of Portland, Oregon.
If you'd switch the pricing model from fixed subscription to advertising or sponsored, you'd have millions of users in weeks.
Just think about it, I think you have the right product but maybe, not the right model.
juansavs 2 years ago