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Originally Posted by NoWhErE
Payouts, features, etc are all moot points if you don't already have access to large amounts of traffic to feed whatever platform you want to build.
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This is completely true.
It's just like with affiliate networks. The affiliate bringing traffic really brings 95% of the value and the network brings about 5% based on offers, payouts, features, etc. But all those things don't mean anything without the traffic.
Let's say I built an alternative to twitter, which had some really great features and reasons for using it. No censorship. No banning etc.... the problem is when you first start these things they are "dead in the water" and have no users, and thats the "conundrum"
It's like starting a legitimate dating site or app to compete with tinder.... even if you build something profoundly good, you still have the challenge of starting with 0 real users and having to "get the ball rolling" so to speak. This is really the core challenge.