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by zaidf 5736 days ago
Wow.

MIDDLE SCHOOL

HelpersSeekers.com - would have been yahoo answers! like site. Somehow never launched. Spent months developing.

HIGH SCHOOL

CricketFreak.com - a cricket news portal. Somehow never launched. Spent months developing.

trackmail(sp?).com - send email through it and get a notification when it's read(a personal omg moment)

COLLEGE

ChupChaap.com Classifieds site for India.

TextbookDaddy.com - textbook exchange site. launched. shut down. within few days

way too cool domain I need to re-register.com woot for young women. developed for weeks. shut down in couple days after launch

Hollr.org - CL-like site. Never launched. Good call!

ClassHunt.com - let students at my uni get a txt soon as a seat opened up in a class

became a huge hit on campus, over 50% of freshman signed up, had to shut down after uni's course registration moved to peoplesoft which made it impossible to parse latest class data

Good news: I pivoted to another product in same market which is now my start-up

1 comments

Why shut down so many products within a few days after launch? Doesn't seem like enough time to test traction.
Yeah, single biggest lesson learned. Since, my ideas have had a lot more time dedicated to it, more iterations(vs. NONE) and a lot more traction to show.