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I see your issue: marketing. Each of your products can succeed if you spent 99% of your time/effort/money on marketing.

Blitzer seems simplifier. You pick a city, a local one would be easier. You join local groups, connect with local media, setup local events, talk to people locally. Put up fliers with qr codes.

Maybe you have a big prize somewhere in the city gl and you get everyone excited to look for it in some geo search game.

Follow that and you will succeed. My guess is you don't want to do that. That's not fun, or technical. That's what it takes to succeed.. and it can work in any industry from selling t-shirts to rocket fuel.

Most people want to come up with a unique idea or twist, create the site/application and expect everyone to come because of the quality of the idea. This rarely works unless your product is 100x better than what exists and even then you still need to get lucky go viral. Meanwhile everyone thinks your idea is great and is now copying it.

Your comment here tells me you understand this: "But then again why would they do it through my site when they can do it via IG or Twitter"

Why would anyone try to sell farts through you? Have you build up a fart audience? That's your first step. Find a way to get people who like farts to visit your fart content farm. Once you built that you can approach fart suppliers directly or buy thier farts and resell at a higher price.

Spend 99% of your time creating a community. 1% of your time coding.



This: these products are all community products, the value of them is in the community, and therefore almost all of the hard work is in building a community. If you don't like working with people... better to build a utility product, or a B2B, or something that doesn't require mass adoption and therefore large amounts of community building work.




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