How to gain traction and find the first users for a 2 sided platform, where I need users to provide content, and other users that are interested in that content? Its a kind of a chicken-egg problem. Whats your experience?
Produce the content yourself. First it solves the "where do I get content problem?" Second it allows you to tailor the content to the consuming users. Third if you have a platform that allows users to post content you will need to moderate the content so creating good content yourself reduces the amount that needs to be moderated and insures that the content is not <i>entirely</i> bot spam.