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You're doing what 100 other startups are trying to do right now, connecting like-minded people through activites, just to name a few: Spontacts, Woofound, spotvite, aka aki etc.

They have all failed because if you're trying to be everything for everybody, you just end up being nothing for no one.

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We are not about connecting like-minded people. We are trying to help people solve their everyday problems....connecting people is a consequence of it.

It doesn't matter what you do beforehand, the goal is to connect them. I've built an entire app like this too and it's a great problem to solve, probably the greatest of all, however you will hit a wall in 2-3 months once you figure out that you can't market it and that you can't raise money from investors, because they have been pitched this 100 times before and they know the problems.

Just go for one use-case, really. :)

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