Gracias! And very interesting ideas (thank you for them! I like way you think.) -- I definitely need to make it more active mainly for new users since it's still very small for a social network (675 users and counting... almost 3 days in though!) and it can seem a little quiet at first. Well, to be honest I got inspired to make this when Facebook started with the changes... I don't want to put in a cliche phrase about being the next big thing, but I just saw a lot of my friends and the general public pissed off and hating Facebooks changes, which led me to think you know what might as well really test my skills and see what I can do. I attempted a social network before myself (this is my second attempt) but that was about a year ago and It's stupid how much I've learned since then.
Thank you so much; Really, it means the world to me and gives me more motivation than ever (and it's hard as hell to motivate me at times) when I get any type of user feedback what so ever. I don't have any real-world contacts that do what I do (code/internet related work in general) that I can get feedback from, So needless to say I rarely get it for any of my projects.
Yes it's a very tough market; But I see nothing wrong with that, it just goes to show (in my eyes) that it's a good market to get into if it's that popular, but you have to make people love it & make it stand out otherwise you'll be another failed startup collecting e-dust.
Thanks :) And Xbox Connect is about to get a lot more awesome. The thing is though, I don't want to make it too geeky. The Reddit Connect/Xbox Connect features or benefits if you will, will only be prominently displayed if in fact you are connected; I don't want to be showing a bunch of Reddit or Xbox related stuff to people who don't give a crap about either; but I want to make it even more awesome for those who do.
As far as marketing plans: I am working on that. So far it's off to an interesting start!, we have 645 registered users currently and launched ~2 and 1/2 days ago. I am 19 years old & i've been working on this (myself) for the past few months now; however I've been coding for about 5 years now. Sadly, I've never been a marketing guru but I am actively working on getting Swupa out there now as much as physically possible, I have a decent amount of funds (all out of pocket) and have & will continue to cater hardware wise to the sites growth much before it's actually needed. Trying to really do this right :)
Fantastic. Off to a great start here :( Must have mistyped my password when creating the account because i can't login and tried about 100x. Proof its me still: http://www.swupa.com/admin/431/ --- Privacy policy: Something I was literally just thinking of. I will get that done now as I understand that is crucial for a community like this. On a side note, all info is completely optional by all means. Signing up only requires a Username & Password.. Just like here :)