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by Bud 5653 days ago
I don't mean to be all negative or rain on your parade; it's just that you presented this as a replacement for a certain pat of Craigslist. But what you appear to be designing is something very different. It won't really attract that audience. And in particular, I agree with other commenters that people browsing such a service explicitly do NOT want the site harvesting their location info. That's an example of something they'd want to avoid.
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I dont think its very diffrent; the goal here is for girls to check in and then you can find them via search and video chat / txt or call them. Thats the same value prop that CL Erotic section had. If you are saying you dont like how I am going about that then that is possibly a valid good point. Are you saying bad product or product / market fit? This is my first node project and it kind of took a few twist and turns but whatever... I might just make it something else if that does not work out.
I would like to at least know what I'm getting in trade for allowing the app to know my location. As it is, I load the site, it displays a blank page with a weird icon on the left, and it immediately asks for the location ... and I have not done anything yet.
Dont get discouraged, there will always be people who dont like what you do. And it is often this group that floods you with messages, those who like your product are too busy using your product to message you =) fact of life