Hi
I am a startup guy, working on my 2nd of graduation at IIT Kharagpur. I started 2-3 startups in IIT itself but got failed but still i did not look back and then started in dating sector, specially for IIT, dateIITians.com
It was a hit for me to boost my confidence, as it received monthly 10M+ hits, was in more than 50-60 Indian and international media, it had less than 500 Indian alexa, and less than 9000 Global just in 3 months duration. We received 10’s thousands of registrations.
BUT in lack of technology as we were not good in technology, the product crashed, and we tried to enhance the technology by learning. Then we saw request from all across the universities students to be part of this platform, we opened for 1000 universities then.
BUT, we are unable to handle the crowd and server as we did not have CLOUD SERVERS or money even as we are in 4th year graduation (Me and my CoFounder). Then we realized need of such products to provide social dating network, safe, secure, real identity and highly focused on privacy.
Based on this, we launched www.cogxio.com this month only. You can read about us in lots of media here: https://www.cogxio.com/s/about/press including Business Standard, Economic Times, Indian Express and more.
Photo: This is existing cogxio.com website, though it is not typical dating website but focuses on social aspect of relationships.
The response is really good for this month too as we only launched 1st Phase of the product.
But then we realized that we need to make changes to model to give opportunity to more people who are not even single as our platform is ‘AD FREE, SOCIAL, AND SIMPLE, FREE’
FOR THIS WE NEED SUGGESTIONS FROM YOU, AS We are making changes to the model where dating activities is only for singles, and does not appear for social networking part where married, professionals all can be a part of for free sharing and communication.
What is your suggestion on this?
– What do you think, pivoting from dating to social platform will help us?
– What you think, this pivot will make better brand than now?
– Will then users come easily?
– What other way this can be monatized in the present situation?
– Can it is possible to get funded and make more better intelligent system than now?
– We also working on BIG DATA ANALYTICS part, so will our BIG DATA will help us in building sustainable and better product than the one we have right now?
– If in pivot, what things can be added here, as right now it is trust able product with high safety, security and privacy, but still it is difficult to all singles (even they want to join) to get them here?
You can also read the last posts here: https://www.therodinhoods.com/forum/topics/experience-the-new-age-of-social-love-be-in-love?
PS: We are also looking some Tech Geeks, Mobile Geeks to work with us to build web product + mobile fast and better.
For Mobile Developer here: https://www.therodinhoods.com/forum/topics/hiring-mobile-developer-ios-android-cogxio-com-new-age-of-social
Team Member: Product Development – Technical: https://www.therodinhoods.com/forum/topics/technical-team-member-backend-developer