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Failed Startups - Lessons Learned
This document provides lessons learned from startups. It discusses how the design of SafyYaLaban and Baralbait may not have been cool but should focus on usability. Knowing the audience is important, as Baralbait was mainly a website without proper mobile support. Content is king, and applications should grab content from other sources while also providing incentives for user contributions. A startup's application shouldn't keep content isolated and should promote itself on social media. The business and strategy should follow what users want through the use of APIs and by being flexible to morph over time.
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Failed Startups - Lessons Learned
- 1. Startups – LessonsLearnedGeekFest Cairo 1.0TarekAmr (@gr33ndata)
- 2. A Startup andA ToyShare your location with friends.Schedule Meetings and EventsDiscover new places, cafes, hotels, museums, etc.Find Geotagged Photos, and share new ones.Find out what’s going on where.More than 2 years of developmentSafyyalaban!?15 minutes of coding.
- 3. Design: Cool orUsableBaralbait design is not coolI am not good in web design: I use tables instead of CSS and never used Photoshop before. But!?
- 4. Design: Cool orUsableSafyYaLaban’s design is even worse (An HTML for dummies style)It’s not about being cool, but it’s how to make users do what you want them to do.
- 5. Design: Cool orUsableAdding one sentence in Baralbait increased users interaction there.
- 6. Know your audienceBaralbaitis for people to report where they are and find nearby interesting locations.Yet it is mainly a website without a proper mobile application or mobile version!
- 7. Content is theKingA bot to show people their way!Example: Baralbaiter!Grab content from other applications:Examples: Brightkite-Twitter, LinkedIn-Twitter, Twitter-API, Facebook-Connect.Yet, API only is not enough.Incentives for people to add content:Examples: Gowallaand FourSquare
- 8. Getting more socialWhathappens is your application, shouldn’t stay in your application.Free marketing:Every move you make; Twitter, Facebook, etc. will be watching you.SafyvsBaralbait!
- 9. You don’t haveto know what your startup really is.Ok, I lied, I have to know what your startup is now, but not after a year or two from now.Twitter: Who went to the bathroom, and who is eating pizza now => Iran Election and Haiti Earthquake.Facebook: Keep in touch with Friends => YouTube Aggregator => Web-based Playstation => Twitter++ => ??
- 10. Follow your users!Usersare your new developers.APIBusiness and StrategyBe flexible and ready to morph your service to what suits your users more. After more than 2 years, Latitude, Brightkite, Gowalla, Foursquare, etc are born. So, Barabait is dead now, or not?