I was building Crowdwide, a social media platform I started working on on 9 Sept 2026 (the day I created the GitHub repo).
That was the day when it was at 0, and now, after 1 month and 10 days, it has lots of features and 11 users!!
But I noticed that users are there, but they barely come back.
So I decided to focus on getting users now.
so what new did i change to achieve this in crowdwide?
there was no common social media feature left to implement at this point!!
so now i just thought that i should call the users back by notifications.
i implemented these:
After 24 hours away: a community question they can answer. It picks an open question that matches their interests and has few replies. If none exists, it sends Today's Question.
After 3 days: the most active discussion matching their interests, plus a line on what's new this week (new posts, members, communities).
After 7 days: a last "what you missed" note with replies, likes, and new followers on their posts, plus top posts. It says it's the last reminder.
Channels: each goes by email, by push if they have push notifications turned on, and as a notification waiting in the app. If there's nothing worth saying, nothing is sent.
and these were for when the user isn't coming back, but if the user comes back, what will he do??
like no task??
so i came up with that... that i should give him some task, like answering any question. not a maths or physics question lol.
i mean a funny, short, concise question.
and u will be able to answer other people's questions too!!
also, the Privacy page now mentions the reminders.
thinking of adding more things now... maybe today you'll see something like streaks and badges... that's under development right now!!
reddit...
also, to get ideas for getting more users, i was checking out other similar platforms that match Crowdwide's category.
like reddit!!
and idk why this happens only to me.
i was on reddit, opened a page on r/startupideaindia, and saw a post from a user saying that he was a tea seller who wanted to get more buyers but wasn't very professional.
he wanted a B2B setup, but he didn't have enough funding and was self-funded, so he was asking for advice and tips.
i commented below with something like:
create hype or try something unique.
like, with tea, provide unique-looking cups or teabags that look normal but show a beautiful picture when dipped in tea.
also, if you're targeting indian people, give them something special on festivals.
like diwali special cups.
india is a price-sensitive market. make them feel like they paid less and got more!!
and they just removed my content, ngl. it was written by me 1000%.
WHYYYY???
so i decided to never implement any useless algorithm on Crowdwide like reddit, which does this.
and while posting the comment, they said i had to wait 3 minutes. i waited 3 mins, then posted it and...
they just removed it for no reason!!
but i also wanted to know how these bots work.
should i implement something like this on Crowdwide??
but fine!!
i don't need bots on Crowdwide.
less users but real users!!
Links:
🌐 Live website: https://www.crowdwide.run.place/
💻 GitHub repository: https://github.com/DeveloperPuneet/Crowdwide
