Comments on: Starting a Social App? Find a niche and work outward

By: Andrew Daum

Andrew Daum — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 18:36:01 +0000

I don’t know if I would call Netflix a social app

I agree with what you are saying though. It was really only a matter of time before the web became just a huge “voyeur” social application where people could interact with each other.

Oh yea… I like the cool ajax Preview as I am typing. Have to get this myself.

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Fri, 09 Feb 2007 21:23:42 +0000

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By: heri

heri — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 01:48:52 +0000

this post is so true, but i also think a web publisher needs also to be part of the niche he is targeting. i dont know if it is the case for myspace or amazon, but i know 37Signals and corkd were web designers, facebook was started by a harvard student. my rule here is : you have to use your app. dont try to design a website that would target people you have no idea how they live, work or play

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Thu, 01 Feb 2007 21:46:18 +0000

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By: Darren Ramowski

Darren Ramowski — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 21:14:20 +0000

Hi, great article and I couldn’t agree more especially with final point.

For a hobby I wrote an online application a few years ago which was targeted at a niche market. Without any marketing the site grow steadily mainly by word of mouth and resulted in me gradually introducing new features based on the user bases requirement. Over time the site organically grow into a more social site allowing users to interact, view users information and everything you expect from social sites these days. Over the last 12 months, again without advertising, I have now started to see a massive growth in new users. It’s human nature, people want to be social.

By: mockriot » Serve your niche

mockriot » Serve your niche — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 21:56:14 +0000

[...] Josh Porter has a great post today about how successful social applications often start in a particular niche, and grow outward. He points to examples like MySpace, which started by targeting musicians and their fans, Amazon, which focused exclusively on booksellers, and Facebook, which was started to serve college students (and more specifically, Harvard students). [...]

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» Starting a Social App? Find a Niche and work… - myspacerip.com — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 14:02:00 +0000

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