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by I-M-S 3708 days ago
In my experience, tactics you mentioned are much easier said than done. You mention launching city by city - what I would suggest is focusing on how exactly you are going to launch in ONE city (the first one). I don't know your financial situation, but I think you are underestimating the costs of organizing even small-scale promotional activities and perhaps overestimating reach of you as an individual and/or willingness of others to share/help (if you have a development team, I can tell you they are mostly not prone of "leaving the building").

See my other comment how to gauge if user interest in interviews is real or hypothetical. Hope this helps!

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Thanks, I appreciate the time taken to give this feedback. Honestly, I expect user acquisition to be very challenging, the industry average cost of acquisition is currently at around $2.50 / user and considering I will be running pre-rev for atleast a year will further stress the company. I am working on a concrete plan of action and am quite sure I can get down COA substantially considering I managed to get it down from another startup of mine from $1.00 -> $0.35 but that was in a completely different market and it was an easier sell.

I will check out your other comment, if you have any suggestions on marketing ideas I would appreciate it.

Is this available yet? Also I think letz will be easier for the app search engines. There is a lot of Let's * apps out there.
Not available yet but projected launch this summer. we are currently working on onloading strategy to get users on quickly upon launch.

We saw the same problem you described with alot of Let's we will probably change it. Im on the fence but there are more pros than cons to the change.