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by chanced 4816 days ago
>> You said the deals aren't real. I guess I was confused, I thought this was automatically aggregating all the deals from other services.

Ah, I see. I just meant the deals are fake, as in please don't show up at the restaurants and ask for a $5 burrito because "you saw it on forage"

>> If you are having to go talk to restaurants and secure deals themselves, this idea won't scale. Just being up front.

Neither. Restaurants & bars manage their own promotions.

>> No, the design is obviously done by a non-designer. That's okay to start off with.

Ouch. Outside of the logo and the specific pages (deal, restaurant) I actually thought the design was decent. I'm horrible at branding so I hired a designer but he came up with something horrible. I'm just using the current logo as a placeholder.

>> Marketing 1 feature > Adding more features

It really depends on the features, product, and audience. Social networking integration would go leaps and bounds above blogging.

>>I highly recommend the book "Start Small Stay Small" by Rob Walling, it is a great business book for micropreneurs. Also Rob has a great podcast "Startups for the Rest of Us" that I think you would like.

Cool, I'll check it out. Thanks again.