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> we take design inspiration from websites like Hacker News, Craigslist, and McMaster Carr

I bet they'd love when2meet.[0] It's a gem for organizing, completely free and zero sign-up required. It's really inspired me to push myself to see how far I could take "no signup required" in any app I work on

[0] https://www.when2meet.com/

> The first 99 paying users are "Founding Grugs." For any referral you get to sign up for a paid account, we'll pay you 25% of the persons recurring revenue.

Oh it's a pyramid scheme

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Ehh, not really a pyramid schemes if there’s a reason to use the app beyond just signing up more people.

Feels like a shallow growth-hack.

that's the idea. and desire to have no longterm marketing costs after that.

It's a very poorly conceived pyramid scheme if so, since it's limited to 99 people and the revenue share only goes one referral deep

> the revenue share only goes one referral deep

"25% of the persons recurring revenue" must be all the referrals of that referral and all the way down.

I don't like it because it introduces difficult to understand incentives that may be different than "make good product" and difficult to understand.

Maybe the most obvious wrong incentive is "make product that is easy to get your friends to start and keep using". A product like that would benefit from network effects and social contagion and no interoperation with other products, and build features correspondingly. (cf Facebook)

I didn't paste the rest of it:

  Paying users 100-999 are "Early Grugs."
  Same deal, at 20%

  Paying users 1000-9999 will be "Grug 'Ohana."
  Same deal, at 15%

just an idea since I haven't enabled payments. open to feedback.

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