it's essentially a crowd sourced rock climbing destination filter for world class destinations. Most similar tools will have ALL climbing areas meaning you have to filter through a bunch of noise to find the real diamonds.
I originally built it to solve my own problem of "I don't really know where I should go on vacation" so I don't mind if it isn't successful because I actually use it myself quite frequently.
everyone I've showed it to thinks it's amazing and that it will do well but I have no idea how to spread the word effectively so I think it's destined for mediocrity haha.
How many users do you have? Were you able to grow an active community? (Forum or other).
The website feels lonely without seeing what other users are doing I feel.
according to google analytics my 28 day active users is 134. I haven't really tried to grow an active community yet to be honest. I feel like I need to fill out some more destinations(I'm missing a lot of south america and africa) before I pursue that.
Beyond that, there isn't really a strong need for anything social given what the core product does. On the other hand, you're right, the site feels very empty because of that... maybe I just miss websites from the 2000's haha.
I bought a couple 80meter ropes and I plan on doing some giveaway promotions to hopefully drive some traffic once the pandemic has subsided though. I'll have to think about a social aspect to the site I suppose.
To me it sounds like a nomadlist-type model could work.
What draws people in to nomadlist is the info (cities, budget, etc..). What hooks them is the community (forum, Slack chat, # of nomads in the city).
thanks! That is something I'll definitely add at some point if the site ends up becoming popular. Most of that info can be easily found on sites like mountainproject or ukclimbing though so I didn't want to reinvent the wheel.
it's essentially a crowd sourced rock climbing destination filter for world class destinations. Most similar tools will have ALL climbing areas meaning you have to filter through a bunch of noise to find the real diamonds.
I originally built it to solve my own problem of "I don't really know where I should go on vacation" so I don't mind if it isn't successful because I actually use it myself quite frequently.
everyone I've showed it to thinks it's amazing and that it will do well but I have no idea how to spread the word effectively so I think it's destined for mediocrity haha.