Looking for testers at PinSwarm.com

[Al@PinSwarm]

I have built this site www.PinSwarm.com and pushed it into the world last week.

Any business, event organiser, club or social media influencer in the world can pin their offers, events, news, embed TikToks and Youtube videos - and drive a local audience to their content. Visitors to the site can see everything that is happening immediately around them - which is just awesome if you are looking for local offers, video content relevant to the local area, something to do with the children today -either at home or when you are on holiday, what restaurant offers are available today.... the list is endless.

For launch, pins are totally free for the first day, then just 10p every day after that to extend it for up to 30 days - and have it "featured" in the search results above all the free ones.

We have 100 more things coming over the next few months - this is only day 2

Appreciate throughts and suggestions. Yes, there are a lot of christmas events pinned, that's just from 1 user, and they should blend in better when there is more content!

Thanks
Al

 

[Ozzy]

The link you've posted sends you to a "Freelancer.co.uk" redirect page, I've fixed it for you.

 

[Al@PinSwarm]

Thanks Ozzy, you are a star Trying to get freelancers to help with graphics - it is incredible what they come up with in the Freelancer "contests".

Loving your work by the way, Im a fan!!

 

[Ozzy]

Functionally it works, but my humble opinion is you should focus on events and businesses (offers) as that is where you would be more likely to drive revenue. Build a business case around that, and then I probably see this more as a mobile app than a website.

It's not my cup of tea but then I very much doubt I'm your target market, but I get the concept for the young gen to check what's on in their area, but doesn't that type of service already exist.

 

[Al@PinSwarm]

Thanks for the feedback.

If you look on a phone it is hard to tell it isn't an app, I tried to make it work well on both... if I can get any traction then will indeed build an app too. ?

I havn't seen anything that shows what events are on.. except Eventbright (corporate), Facebook Events (well populated, but never shows anything local.. and sometimes not even UK).

It's like Google maps business listings - but for temporary content, that lives for a few days then expires rather than being static.

It's one of those ideas that's been niggling at me, so I had to let it live and breath for a bit.. just to see if anyone else sees it too...

Keep up the great work.

 

[fisicx]

Can’t really see the point. I can Google to find local events, look at a fb feed, use nextdoor and all sorts of other channels.

I just put in my location and there’s nothing happening. This is only going to work if you scrape data an prepopulate.

I also found it very fiddly to use on a phone but maybe that’s just me.

Also, if I was an event organiser I’d just want to add a pin and link to my website. Don’t want to have to write everything twice. I’d expect your software to pull the image from the site.

But your biggest problem is going to be marketing. Unless you can get hundreds of thousands of people using the site it’s not going to get lots of traction. Which probably means considerable financial investment.

 

[IanSuth]

You may want top consider giving it free to a certain type of organisation to get an amount of traffic on it so it becomes self sustaining

Maybe list all the park runs or let scout/guide groups list their events for free - both organisations that wouldn't pay anything anyway but may have events of interest to people

 

[Beautinow]

• It has to be at least totally free so that it can gain traction first and get users.
• I am not sure if the homepage should be a map. It's enough if I know I can see the events based on city. After that, the proximity is less of an issue. I first want to find a niche event, then I want to know the exact location, not the other way around.