jrsutterfield

Thanks for all the suggestions. That's all super helpful. I've worked at places where ads have paid my salary, but I haven't been involved in _how_ those ads or user data actually translate into revenue before. This is a really good starting point.

Awesome. I just ordered it. Thanks for the recommendation :)

Haven't heard of those before, but they sound useful. I'll check them out. Thanks!

Yea, that's a fair point that we don't need to rank well for "tinder for names" specifically. We have that tag line used in a few different places in the site, so I figured if we're not even ranking well for that, then we're certainly not ranking well for anything else. But ranking well more generally when it comes to baby names is ultimately what we'd want.

That's a good idea to spend more time looking at our competitors and thinking about what makes us different/better. We'll look more at that. Thanks for the thoughts!

Yea, I've heard of that trap before of building and then trying to solve a problem rather than identifying the problem first and then building. We've certainly done a bit of that here.

Initially the project was primarily just something fun for us to work on together and to stretch ourselves beyond what we typically get to do at our day jobs. For that it's been good and "successful". But, we have reached a point where it'd be more fun if other people beyond us actually used it. I think that's a good point that we should step back and reflect on what the problem is, who wants it solved, and how we position ourselves so people come across our project when looking for a solution. We'll spend some time reflecting on that. Thanks for the comment!