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<p>[QUOTE="vpr, post: 2004525, member: 41554"]And don't worry about "getting too big". That's a problem every website would love to have. It's not very hard to figure out how to monetize the site. In today's environment, you will have investors throwing money at you, if you can show user growth. Worst case, you can't afford hosting costs and you shut down the site. Your big problem is getting enough users.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you want validation for what I'm saying, try to find what twitter looked like when it first came out. Or Airbnb or pretty much any multi-billion dollar internet company. They were very basic and filled a need that they saw in the world. They worried about that. Not about ads and features etc. Pick 1 thing you hate about transactions on forums and fix that. For me, that's the feedback system. And another is the "Hey, Interested in the coin. Is it still available?" issue. A buy-it-now with best offer feature would solve that.</p><p><br /></p><p>Once you've validated that 1 fix you've made (with user growth), then you can add more features like auctions, new categories etc.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="vpr, post: 2004525, member: 41554"]And don't worry about "getting too big". That's a problem every website would love to have. It's not very hard to figure out how to monetize the site. In today's environment, you will have investors throwing money at you, if you can show user growth. Worst case, you can't afford hosting costs and you shut down the site. Your big problem is getting enough users. If you want validation for what I'm saying, try to find what twitter looked like when it first came out. Or Airbnb or pretty much any multi-billion dollar internet company. They were very basic and filled a need that they saw in the world. They worried about that. Not about ads and features etc. Pick 1 thing you hate about transactions on forums and fix that. For me, that's the feedback system. And another is the "Hey, Interested in the coin. Is it still available?" issue. A buy-it-now with best offer feature would solve that. Once you've validated that 1 fix you've made (with user growth), then you can add more features like auctions, new categories etc.[/QUOTE]
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