Disclaimer: I am not writing any of these to brag, just to encourage first time entrepreneurs who are finding it difficult.<p>I recently put out my new app wolfpacktales and like any Entrepreneur will do, I pitched the big name blogs/sites. As it usually happens, I didn’t even get a response from the writers I pitched. I wasn’t deterred.<p>Wolfpacktales: Just think Campfire meets social networking. It’s a group conversation app, where users create private groups (I call wolfpacks) and invite people from their social networks – Facebook, Twitter, Gmail & LinkedIn – to join the conversation.<p>After realizing there would be no success with these big blogs, I pretty much invited all 546 of my Facebook friends to a random wolfpack I created. I also took to the smaller blogs, startup submission sites etc and pitched about 50 of them. I knew all I needed to get going was just a little initial traction just because of the inherently viral nature of the app. That’s exactly what happened. On Friday, I had seen 120 people signed up, that number kept increasing over the weekend and as of this Morning (Monday), there are 2,567 users. I know it’s not a big number by any means, but it shows potential. And yes, I do realize that GroupMe didn’t take all that money just to market their product…I’m just noting that no money, and no big press doesn’t disqualify your product.<p>Moral Lesson: Read the last line.<p>Will write another update in a few days/weeks.<p>Link: http://wolfpacktales.com (It’s still very much new, so I welcome feedback!)
Agree whole-heartedly. I am still trying to figure out what exactly it takes to be what I refer to as a "sweet heart of silicon valley". Some companies repeatedly get covered regardless of how minor and marginal their new feature is (I recall reading about chat roulette's new wall paper a couple weeks ago).<p>Same situation in the group messaging space. I am the cofounder of Groupie, which is tied with Beluga as the highest rated group messaging app on the App Store. We have tens of thousands of users and tens of thousands of groups. In fact, you cant search for GroupMe without seeing Groupie, yet we've never been covered. It's a mystery to me but that ultimately hasn't stopped us from growing and with a good product, it won't stop you from growing either.<p>On that note, happy to make myself available you should want to discuss anything since we've probably hit a few hurdles that you're undoubtedly going to confront.<p>Good luck.<p>Leo at groupie dot co
Thanks for the encouragement. Going through the smaller blogs is definitely a start to get your name out there. At the end of the day its really just relationships in SV that get you on the front page of big blogs.<p>We also have a group messaging app that just launched our BETA on Android and iPhone last weeks and is now closing on close to 5000 users after a few days. Check it out if you have the chance.<p>Rob
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Why does it ask for permission to post tweets when I try to authorize through Twitter? Can you consider switching to read-only access? I hate that every application, which uses twitter only for authorization, seems to want to post a lot of stuff in my twitter account, which I certainly do not want. :(
Hmm when I look at I don't see any difference between this an frid.ge, etc and there seems to be no way to look closer at it without signing up to yet another service.<p>So how does this differ from the rest of the group chat systems?
I think its a useful application. Hope you can add a way for users to invite others to their pack manually by entering email address (instead of directly importing contacts).
While I understand the reason to support social network sign-ins, I'm certainly tired of seeing sites that require it. Hopefully this trend will end at some point.