Build a Tiny Product First

Re:Build a Tiny Product First by purplecats on Sunday November 08, 2020 @02:10AM (#25023763)

i did this. spend a couple weeks building out my saas.

then got disheartened when the major ad agencies (reddit, facebook) rejected my app because it competes with tinder/etc and is a dating app service augmenter.

so... yeah i left it to rot.

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Re:Build a Tiny Product First by griffoa on Sunday November 08, 2020 @05:05AM (#25024582)

Why would ad agencies reject an app?? You are not allowed to advertise Tinder clones??

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Re:Build a Tiny Product First by purplecats on Sunday November 08, 2020 @03:23PM (#25028654)

I'm not sure what their problem is. In facebook's case, they have a dating app so I'm sure they're not into that.

Facebook doesn't give you much actionable feedback. Here's the routine I went through _several times_ publishing my ad there.

1. submit app

2. app gets rejected, and my account gets banned. get a generic message saying dating apps need to adhere to special, strict guidelines, and I need to sign up as a Dating service with Facebook's customer service team.

3. I try to sign up for it, and they tell me I don't qualify as a dating service (cause my app is not a dating service, it's an augmentation on it - getsmartswipe.com). So back to square one after this contradictory mess.

4. I submit repeal to unban me.

5. They unban me.

6. I change some wording hoping maybe that's the change they wanted.

7. go to (1)

reddit, similar. I'm sure they made it confusing on purpose but in Reddit's case they took a week to reject it and said I needed to commit a minimum of 30k to advertise dating apps and work directly with them. Made no sense, so I didn't bother retrying with Reddit.

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