[offtop5]

As a game developer, do you have any type of API for me to be able to import user data. For example if users have an account with your service, it would be awesome for them to be able to import the model into my game. I would need something that works with unity, in fact if you could have that in your pipeline. Something like a pre-configured Unity Avatar

[pradeepb30]

Introducing this as an API was something ppl have told us repeatedly. Our plan was to, later as we grow, come up with something like “Sign in with Highavenue” - this way users can export their data to any gaming/MMOs or any other application with just single button tap.

And we can make sure it works cross platforms. We will collaborate soon on this :)

[thegeomaster]

Don't want to pretend I know the peculiarities of your case, but if people repeatedly ask for something in order to use your product, it might be a good idea to prioritize it more and build it ASSAP.

I say this as an early employee of a startup that failed, where people have repeatedly asked us for a feature and we wanted to build it "later as we grow". We never got to that point because we never got enough users. Had we built the feature, we would've at least gotten users.

"Sign in with Highavenue" doesn't sound too good at an early stage, to be honest. Even as a future plan. For game/AR/whatever developers, requiring their users to create an account with Highavenue will probably be a dealbreaker.

I also notice you mention in another comment that your goal is to create a network around it, and that's why it requires a login. I admire the sentiment, but at this stage I don't think it's the way to go. I see a very cool tool that I'd take for a spin, but no reason why I'd join a network around this. I think, as a medium, 3D animations are far less general and expressive than video/audio/images [for the same amount of effort put into creating], so I'd be wary of trying to emulate what TikTok/Snapchat/Clubhouse did. It might very well be that the medium is different enough that no one can use their creativeness effectively with it, making it DoA as a social network per se.

(Aside: we also had a mandatory login screen, and even with a landing page, when we implemented an automatic "guest mode" which dropped you into the webapp instantly, people actually started using it and signing up.)

I'd say pack it up as an API, offer to developers at first. Then you're B2B and that's much easier to charge for than B2C. When you see cool stuff that developers do with it, you can partner with them, you can go consumer facing gradually (and with limited risk in case it doesn't work out) and you'll have some capital to put back into that growth.

I see a lot of similarities to earlier me in your responses - you're very defensive of your work and the choices you made, and that's fine, but you're walking a fine line with just dismissing initial feedback because of the sunk cost fallacy. I was dead set on "listening to feedback" as well but ended up doing the same thing. Don't take any of this the wrong way, not trying to disparage or discourage, it's a cool product, and in terms of startups I know nothing on the grand scale of things. So if it feels right ignore all I said and best of luck. But also consider what I'm saying even for just a second :)

[pradeepb30]

OMG, thank you so much for the detailed comment. This is super helpful. I’ll definitely discuss about this with the team. And the plan of going b2b and then moving to b2c seems great as well. I’ll do homework about this. Is there way to get in touch with you? Would love to discuss more and do some brainstorming :)

[thegeomaster]

Sure thing, my email is in my profile. Although I can't guarantee fast responses, and I might have come across as having more experience than I really do :)

[pradeepb30]

That’s fine. Always happy discuss more on this and get to know various perspectives :)

[offtop5]

Internally have you tested the models with Unity?

[pradeepb30]

Yes, but it does need some work though. :)