A campus student marketplace app · B2C · guest's first app
Walk around campus telling students about a student marketplace app
~800 users but no revenue
Mixedin-personword-of-mouth
What they did
For his first app, a University of Oregon student marketplace, he and his team went around campus telling people about it.
What happened
~800 users, but the app never made money; lesson was to pick a specific, monetizable niche
- Stage
- launch
“And we just went around campus, kind of told people about it, and got like 800 users.”
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