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Show HN: My one-sided anonymous chat startup reached 500K+ members virally (connected2.me)
9 points by ozzzy 5013 days ago
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This is my new startup and I'd love to get your feedback. It reached 500K+ members with only viral.

Basically you can think of it as Formspring with chat. You set up an account for people to chat with you anonymously. As their identities are anonymous your friends can ask everything to you that they normally cannot ask. They can tell their thoughts and criticisms about you.

Moreover, you have an opportunity to chat anonymously with celebrities you admire through Connected2.me. You can tell your problems to specialists such as psychologists by keeping your identity secret and get an instant answer. Companies also use Connected2.me in order to get anonymous feedback about their products and give support to their customers real-time.

Please try and tell me what you think.

mobile version works pretty well. This fb virality thing is nuts.

are ads enough to support your operational costs? Any more ideas moving forward?

i think there's some potential in anonymous feedback for large brands. Build a business development team and go after them.

Looks like you have a sizable spanish/latin following, anyon particular reason you know why your distribution been skewed towards those countries?

Products like these tend to be very novel as users will play once and never come back. How do you plan on making retention better?

I think the retention mechanism is built in.

If you want to play, you can do so without registering.

However, if you want to get messages from other people, or to follow up with people later, you'll likely end up registering, and then I'm sure random messages will end up bringing you back.