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Crate is a web platform that delivers content suggestions tailored to any interests or topics to help you share relevant content online. You upload a bit of information like URLs, usernames or keywords and Crate finds the best content for you to share. For example: if you add @ycombinator, Product Marketing and bothsidesofthetable.com to a Crate, we’d show you the best/recent links shared by @ycombinator, with the keyword Product Marketing and blog posts from the bothsidesofthetable.com.

The app is fully integrated with Buffer as their Suggestions featured helped inspire the concept. The team and I wanted to build an app that saved people time from looking around the web for new links to share on social and offering the flexibility to have the content suggestions tailored to whatever their needs.

I’d love to hear your thoughts and feedback on how we can make something great!

You've got a lot of competition but that doesn't mean you can't make a splash. Here are a few things that I would look at implementing to help bring your app to market:

1. Without budget, the best approach to bringing this to market will be good old fashioned hustle. You should consider the power of leveraging gyms and trying to convert the existing clientele. That's a truly hustle hack and one that will be tough to scale without a lot of creativity. You could sell the technology to the various gyms or personal trainers, let them skin it to their own liking and use that as your business model. Or, you could get them to push it on their social channels and link it to an affiliate marketing service - There's all kinds of different approaches in that regard... 2. On the flipside, you could take the traditional healthcare route and build (1) a following and (2) relationships. You can do this in a few ways - Creating quality content that people who are health conscious would care about is step one. Distribute that content in channels and networks where these individuals spend time. (eg. BodyBuilding.com, Reddit and other site that are focused on fitness) The more quality content you create, the more interest you'll generate from the individuals looking for this info. From there, use this content when building relationships - Send it in emails and tell VIPs you just wanted their opinion on the content. 3. You could run adwords campaigns. 4. Create YouTube videos about fitness - The market is becoming saturated but if you get creative with it, you can definitely still capture the attention of the right audience.

Great video.

Exactly how you should compare a product to the competition. Especially if you're the underdog.

I've always loved the concept of an AirBnb for experiences and even considered using a model similar for my own business. That said, overtime, I realized there were several issues with the business model - The founder of Skyara (one of the first AirBnb's for experiences) was the first that realized the model didn't work.

The founder @stevenou shared this a few months back:

"While in theory it sounds like a great concept, the key to realize is that no "AirBnB for Activites" can ever be an "AirBnB for Activities." What I mean by that is: the part of the "AirBnB for X" business model that makes it work is the part where you have a very low marginal cost to renting out an existing resource that, presumably, is getting very low utilization. I.e. a car sitting in a garage, an empty couch. The marginal cost of renting those out... is basically zero. However, with Activities, the resource at play is actually time! A person needs to take two hours out of their day to offer a walking tour, cooking class, etc. Arguably, time is the most scarce resource we have. People value their time highly, which means the marginal cost (in this case the opportunity cost) of them offering an activity is very high. Add to that the fact that individuals do not benefit from any sort of economy of scale, and that most likely means that they cannot compete with businesses on price (which is arguably where AirBnB is winning in its biggest market, NYC).

So of course, I'm not saying an "AirBnB for Activities" is not possible, but some fundamental problems make it significantly more difficult than one might initially expect. Personally I think Vayable is doing a great job, but time will tell..."

Cool concept. I got a whole lot of "friends info is restricted" but the concept as a whole is pretty neat. I think there's an opportunity for someone to use the Facebook API as a whole and completely flip upside down the concept of online dating. Privacy concerns throw a wrench in the plans but if you can get around those; you could definitely have something with the use of the social graph..

I'm quitting for the complete opposite. Jumping back into the entrepreneur game will be filled with unstability, no health benefits and instead of work-life balance; a work-life blend.

Well, that post is an eye-opener. Very timely.

You're spot on with your comment highlighting that "we forget" to give ourselves the space to live outside of our work. It's something that anyone with true ambition is met with but something that we must learn to accept and overcome.

I feel the idea of having success in life and work is most certainly achievable, we just need to push ourselves to be aware of those around us (not just our friends on the internet). I feel we need to make a conscious effort to maintain and sustain positive relationships (partners, kids, parents, friends, etc) while still maintaining healthy work habits. Work hard, play harder.

During the hustle and bustle of entrepreneurship it's often a challenge to manage your diet. We look at optimizing our websites but often forget about the importance of optimizing our health and diet. This was a good reminder that once in a while I need to add some greens to my plate.