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by wehadfun 3315 days ago
Why did you shut it down?
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kickme444 3315 days ago
We were unable to find growth in any cohort.
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Angostura 3315 days ago
Do you consider letting people actually see the site without login - it was a massive barrier to interest imho
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wtvanhest 3315 days ago
Sorry to hear about your experience. I had the pain of shutting down my business a few years ago. It completely sucks, but it is also a relief.

Did you focus on any cohort or did you just experiment with lots of cohorts hoping one would take off? If you did focus, what if anything did you learn?

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kickme444 3315 days ago
To clarify, growth of users.
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geofft 3315 days ago
Why did you need to find this? Was this a pressure from investors, or did you determine internally that growth wouldn't eventually take off, ever?

(One of the things that worries me a lot about taking venture capital is the pressure to grow quickly over growing well / sustainably, so I'm pretty curious about this....)

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nebabyte 3315 days ago
Practically any monetization effort is a function of the number of users - a percent of users paying is still a percent.

If they're not seeing the demand it's smarter to cut losses than to continue on without a plan to make the site sustainable.

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wehadfun 3315 days ago
Growth as in $$$ or visitors of the site
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