Here's our answer to YC app on the chicken & egg issue:
Our idea does face a chicken-and-egg problem although not in the typical sense.
The 2 groups of users on Chance are Influencers (chickens) & Followers (eggs).
Since Chance is built on top of Twitter - a Follower is able tweet video requests to any Influencer through the Chance app, even if that Influencer has never used Chance before.
Through these Follower requests, the entrance of even just a handful of Influencers (chickens) into Chance has the potential to pull in 100s or even 1000s more Followers into Chance (eggs).
So our strategy initially will be to focus on getting: A) Followers to request a chance with any of their Influencers already on Twitter. B) To get pre-subscribed Influencers to broadcast/tweet their availability on Chance, which would immediately pull their followers in.
So the Influencer would see the video request come in on Twitter where he can view it in line OR click the link and view it on a unique landing page.
There's a call-to-action in both options that prompts the Influencer to download the app in order to reply..
Here's an example of this already happening - https://www.chance.fm/w/679/
Hi guys, Chance is an app wholly built on top of Twitter, which we built to improve the Twitter experience itself.It enables short video interactions between Twitter users.So I'd like feedback on what the HN community thinks about Chance and how you all might find value in using it! Thank you!Abhijit Gupta Founder & CEO, Chance.P.S. - We are YC rejects :) Hopefully they got it wrong with us.
Rejected again. But we anticipate better news in the horizon. Lets see..
Where does the HN community see an app like this being used. Chance is a video interaction tool wholly built on Twitter. It is currently being used between fans and artists like this chance.fm/w/664/ but of course there are several other cool applications..What do you guys think?
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