This is a post I just wrote about dealing with failure in adventure, but having worked on a few startups, I think there are a lot of parallels with the startup community. High risk, low chance of success, big challenges yet highly rewarding.
You're bang on the money. This was a very very very early stage test to see what people thought of the idea and if they valued it enough to pay $5. Round two of development will involve more work on the business model and adding the examples of job posts and credibility factor. Thanks for much for the feedback. It's invaluable.
Sorry about that UX faux pas. I'm still learning these things. I didn't realise it was causing problems. I'll get onto it straight away. Glad you let me know. Thanks.
Thanks for letting me know. The title sounds pretty spammy now that I think about it. I'm still experimenting with various ways to reach an adventure audience but I've tried guest posts, SEO, adventure forums and cross promotion are all the usual suspects. I'm not after big growth, just some ideas for reaching the right people at the right time.
I imagine there are some interesting case-studies from people who frequent HN.
As for the cross-over between hikers and hackers, I've seen the OpenBSD developers self-described as "A hiking club with a hacking problem." Nearly all of their main hackathons involve a hike of some sort.
I wasn't meaning small in terms of liveable area. I was just thinking how people generally imagine the planet to be this near infinite area, but really, we each only have a tiny patch of space to look after.
