Comment by joeguilmette

I travel a lot. A lot. My humble suggestion would be to build this for you and not try at all to even try to get others to use it.

If you’re going for PMF and traction… It needs to have all sorts of Nikita Bier onboarding juice, remove all barriers and friction for not only the person setting this up but most importantly their companions. Time to first usefulness is currently minutes. It needs to be seconds. And then layers of social sharing work so that the content this app generates is stuff that will be easily shareable on Instagram. And then layers of contact adding stuff for vitality.

Then your next problem is people don’t go on trips that often, so at best your users can only use it in spurts a few times a year.

And your reward for all of that is then figuring out how to get money out of these users. Ads?

None of that should be bad news. It’s good news. The hard truth is this is not a marketable piece of software. It’s a classic tarpit.

You’ve clearly built something that YOU love and are passionate about. That’s awesome. Keep building it, and get that little burst of dopamine when you add a feature that you love that is perfectly designed for exactly 1 user, the only one who matters.

And then when a profitable idea pops into your head you know what it will take to bring it to life. And if it’s a truly great idea, one that helps your users make money, it wont need any of the soul crushing growth hacks described above, people will beg you to use it and put up with all manner of warts and bugs because it helps them make money.