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@dankusbit hey signed up in the first launch! I know you briefly mentioned going into this vertical so I'm guessing a lot of the users that signed up fit that frame? Also, will you be expanding or just keeping things within the food realm? just curious from another consumer maker!

@edisonjoao6871 Hey Edison, great question and thanks for checking us out! Part of our struggle with version one was marketing the product since it was so broad, and most of the spaces we covered (restaurant recs, book recs, recipes, etc.) were already cornered by standalone apps that did one thing very well (eg, goodreads). We also found that it was a huge hurdle for users to think of and generate their own content to add to their profile (users often compared version one to a note-taking app) whereas now we are putting more emphasis on the discovery experience and we upload products ourselves for other users to see and interact with. Also before pivoting we did a lot of research in diet based facebook groups (theres a ton) where people are always discussing the best special diet food products. To our knowledge we are the only discovery and review platform for plant based and other special diet food products. For now we'll be keeping it in the food realm and we'll see how it goes!

@dankusbit gotcha! thank you for sharing the insight, I'm also learning and seeing a lot of things for the consumer product I'm working on so it's great to see other's in the space pivoting, learning, adjusting. Love it! Good luck man!

@petemerrill This sounds great peter! We've reached out via email

@vlad_larin Thanks Vlad!