Tips on marketing a social networking website to college students

[tonygeor]

Out out those sites...the chatroulette style site looks the most 'fun'

 

[CZroe]

drop the "this."

This. (LAWL)

 

[thepd7]

Apple made the Iphone in 2007 and the Android G1 didn't come out until two years later. I guess google shouldn't of showed up since they were late to the party too? Right?

if it was 5 years later yes, they would have been wasting their time.

Right now I just have it open to these schools:


Bowling Green State University
Cleveland State University
Kent State University
Miami University
Ohio University
The Ohio State University
University of Akron
University of Cincinnati
University of Texas at El Paso
University of Toledo
Wright State University


what school do u go to?

sounds like facebook2004

lol if it was mostly irrelevant schools

 

[tonygeor]

Because ohio state university is an irrelevant school...why not give a constructive comment? pretty plz?

 

[nanette1985]

Not an idea I'd pick, but what the hey. Don't listen to the people who are going to tell you it's all wrong. Go for it, if that's what you want. Even if it's a disaster, you'll learn a lot, which might enable your next idea, or the one after that.

Good luck.

 

[zinfamous]

sounds like facebook2004

except less... "classy?"

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[Leros]

Not an idea I'd pick, but what the hey. Don't listen to the people who are going to tell you it's all wrong. Go for it, if that's what you want. Even if it's a disaster, you'll learn a lot, which might enable your next idea, or the one after that.

Good luck.

Yep. This is always a good learning project.

I'm assuming the OP is still in school. Designing and building site like this would be a great project to put on his resume and to show during interviews. He can also learn a lot of useful skills which can be applied towards a future job or his next idea.

 

[dighn]

Yep. This is always a good learning project.

I'm assuming the OP is still in school. Designing and building site like this would be a great project to put on his resume and to show during interviews. He can also learn a lot of useful skills which can be applied towards a future job or his next idea.

good way of looking at it. it's not like the op has much to lose by working on it. and maybe there is a (small) market for a student-only facebook.

 

[tonygeor]

I have definitely learned a lot doing this. And I'm not saying I'll make billions (even though that would be great), but if it can sustain itself with a little extra on the side I would consider that successful.

 

[tonygeor]

Yep. This is always a good learning project.

I'm assuming the OP is still in school. Designing and building site like this would be a great project to put on his resume and to show during interviews. He can also learn a lot of useful skills which can be applied towards a future job or his next idea.

I graduated in 2007 with a CS degree...then I joined the army, did a tour in Iraq, came back, and now I'm getting out 🙂

 

[TheShiz]

how about coming up with an original idea instead?

 

[shortylickens]

how about coming up with an original idea instead?

His idea is kind of original but not enough. And he cant compete without something truly special.

 

[Leros]

I graduated in 2007 with a CS degree...then I joined the army, did a tour in Iraq, came back, and now I'm getting out 🙂

Did you do much programming while in Iraq? If not, what is it like starting to program after several years of not programming?

 

[tonygeor]

Did you do much programming while in Iraq? If not, what is it like starting to program after several years of not programming?

I haven't done much programming since 2007. The core concepts are still ingrained in me...but syntax and object oriented programming concepts I had to relearn from scratch (and I'm still learning)

 

[l0cke]

This is also a good idea
http://likealittle.com/ucsc

 

[tonygeor]

This is also a good idea
http://likealittle.com/ucsc

nice link, great idea, definitely can see trolls destroying it though

 

[Ns1]

(NEWSER) – If you’re one of those people who was mortified to receive your mom’s Facebook friend request, this should make you happy: CollegeOnly is here, and—like Facebook’s original incarnation—you actually need to be a college student to join the social networking site. Its creator realized that as Facebook grew, “college students are less likely to upload photos or post what they are up to with parents and potential employers looking on,” he tells Mashable. He decided to fill that void.
And the site is, indeed, a protected space: Even the creator says that, “except for moderation and evaluating success of features, I’m not allowed on the site.” A university e-mail address is required to join, and once you do, you’re automatically connected to everyone else in your school (unless you block someone)—and the creator promises those are the only people who will see your crazy frat party pictures. The bad news: Right now, the site is only open to Princeton, Yale, and Cornell.

http://collegeonly.com/signup

not an original idea.

 

[tonygeor]

http://collegeonly.com/signup

not an original idea.

It looks alot different from when he made that quote