WhosDown is a mobile app where you can genuinely make friends—connecting with someone that shares a “common interest” in real-time. A common interest can be any activity like sports, gaming, shopping, or having coffee, you name it.
Neat idea! UX is a little tedious (why is each profile option such as birthday/gender its own page, and why do I have to select 3 categories instead of 1 or 2?).
Interested to see how you solve the underlying chicken&egg problem though, because although I immediately downloaded the app, it's not encouraging to find nothing nearby. Maybe an incentive for someone to create a meetup would help? I imagine there are quite a few people on the app, but most people end up seeing that there is nothing already organized nearby and leave immediately, instead of creating a meetup that shows a presence. Perhaps you could show the number of users in a given area (literally just a number, not identifying them) so that as a user I can see if there actually is enough people in my region to make it worth organizing something.
Really cool idea all things considered, and lots of room for interesting growth hacking!
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