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razasekhaon Show HN: I'm Creating the Next Big Social Media Platform – Rated

I agree, especially on a rating site like this.

My plan is that when/if the app gets big, each account need to have ID verification (similar to what is done in gambling sites and such) in order to be a public account.

razasekhaon Show HN: I'm Creating the Next Big Social Media Platform – Rated

Didn't realise, will address that ASAP!

razasekhaon Show HN: I'm Creating the Next Big Social Media Platform – Rated

Hmm good idea. I am thinking to try and scrape other websites ratings to have a strong recommendation system without any other users required. Do you think that would help?

Definitely struggling with getting the first users.

razasekhaon Show HN: I'm Creating the Next Big Social Media Platform – Rated

Thanks, I'll fix that

razasekhaon Show HN: I'm Creating the Next Big Social Media Platform – Rated

Good question, I think there are quite a few different revenue methods which can be done without much disruption to the user. For example companies paying to get more control over their page and profiles.

One of the nice things is that advertising can be in-app rather than external, for example ads for a restaurant/hotel will direct to the product in the app rather than an external link.

Only after getting a solid userbase will I start to actually implement any monetization.

Also planning to put some measures in (if the app gets big) to make it so that fake-looking users or users with just a couple of ratings don't have their ratings count towards averages and predictions.