PS: I live in the UK, Tuition fees are capped and we have a generous student loan repayment system, the cost of uni is less of a factor than somewhere like the US
If you still have to pay off some kind of rent/mortage and work for a living, you're basically just an NPC-style window dressing for the well and truly rich sons of millionares and oligarchs that make up the London global elite.
Barring some of the super-top-tier jobs, your salary will realistically cap out at maybe £100-150k as the absolute best of the best at which point you're technically really rich on paper but still not like "can actually afford to buy a really nice house and have two kids in a really nice area" rich.
For all the talk about "bigger salaries" and "career progression", I'm genuinely not convinced that those who join the London rat race are actually truly better off than someone in Leeds. Sure you can hit upwards of 80k after like five, but that completely ignores that you need to be earning like £60k to have a half-decent standard of living to begin with.
When you delete an account, the company usually deletes all the data you produce/ anonymize it.
Sure, some of that data is probably archived or spread around the internet, but isn't it better to delete it since most of the data wont be archived
for any given company, any given service, what is the likelihood the terms had a data sharing provision? you know, with their trusted partners. the ones that pay them money? for the data.
depending on how old the accounts, many of the regulations and practices you are expecting to be practiced weren’t yet in existence. perhaps they follow them now. companies have to get into compliance, and in the meanwhile, companies as big and sensitive as equifax and experian go “oh sorry…”
but, no, if you think companies as a thing are consistently, completely, correctly removing data, you are mistaken.
it isn’t even always due to negligence, and in those cases it may be quite legal. it may even be required. if not required legally, it may be in what you agreed to.
but is it secure?
what typically does not happen is a user’s request cleanly triggering a sanitization of all data they have generated on the targeted platform and periphery.
Wasn't reddit just under fire for restoring people's deleted stuff without their consent, during the Apollo protest? I can't find the article right now, but I thought I heard something about this.
I consider myself skilled in social media content creation, therefore I think the best way to market this would be via platforms like tiktok, youtube etc. Especially on the specific productivity nichés on those platforms, generally the people who watch those video's aren't very tech literate and will probably consider looks into their decision of productivity app, however I don't think it will be close the sole reason.
I would describe the app as a "jarvis" like dashboard, with widgets, a kanban board, note taking & storing capabilities with the interactivity and obsidian.md
I think I might stick to your idea of acquiring a few users first especially because this is my first big project.
Those first users will be hard, they’ll have to trust you and commit.
Anecdotally, in my own experiences with something somewhat similar what surprised us was that the less polished what we showed during UX research, the more willing users were to tell us what they really thought and gave more suggestions. We actually started showing even rougher mock-ups and prototypes than we had to. Completed versions were treated as “finished”. That’s just something to think about.
I would try to find a niché - a productivity app for X. Then those first users feel more inclined to stick around.
Haha, I only looked at your profile to check out your "failed" projects.
If it's okay with you, could you please provide a brief description or links to those projects that didn't quite work out?
Edit: If this sounds like an AI response I used ChatGPT to correct my grammar, I can barely write a coherent sentence on my own, even though I am a native speaker.
My latest failure was Wize, a mobile app that let anyone share their skills. It was a great idea, a bit early for its times (live streaming app before Instagram Live and Tik Tok), and it had a great start--we were in the top 20 at the Launch Hackathon, won an award from Google, and we had grammy award music teachers teaching on the platform. It failed because we pivoted too early. Building the two sided market was challenging, but instead of narrowing our focus to one topic, we decided to pivot to a "professional 1-1 coffee chat platform", and then again to a networking app–"Tinder for professionals." After going to a lot of conferences and meetups and talking to professionals, the resounding message we heard was that this domain was tough to dominate and it was going to be an uphill battle for us.
The biggest lesson I learnt in this is take advice with a pinch of salt. There are many successful apps today that resemble v1 (Maven), v2 (Intro), and v3 of Wize, and I think we would have been fine if we had persisted.
Honestly I wrote the title just for clickbait, people in turn interpreted the post as if I was asking if "they were a failure", though I was really asking if they had a failed business or career. Unfortunately, I cannot edit post titles.
