Hi friends, welcome to Chillsy's 10th monthly update!
Chillsy exists because we are frustrated at the lack of practical opportunities to make meaningful connections, and subsequent missed events and activities.
In these updates, we'll share what we've been up to, and our progress towards our goal of helping people overcome various barriers including time, opportunities, confidence to do things they enjoy and feeling less lonely.
Our Focus in September - Launching our app while building it!
At the end of last month, we launched our app! We were focused on understanding how people would use the app, and how to continue growing the platform and continue building as fast as we can.
At a glance, we’re at 282 app users and 25 events created. We have some users coming back 3+ times a week to look for new events and check if there are any updates to things they’re attending.
Much of our time has been spent working to understand our customers’ problems, what they want, and why they want it. A key learning for us has been that the core value is the other people a user could meet. Experiences matter, but they serve as a vehicle for connection. So, since launch, we’ve added DM’s, weekly matching, better notifications + more (and fixed what feels like a million bugs).
It’s been incredibly gratifying connecting people and seeing friendships form through the app/brunches. Our focus continues to build a product people love by solving their problems well. We have many things to work on and a long way to go, but it feels like we’re on the right track.
P.S. Going forward, Gals Brunches will be monthly!
Good, Bad and Ugly
Good
THE APP WORKS!
People have successfully been able to create and attend hangouts and meet people they would otherwise never encounter
People in the community are pulling other people together through Invites, RSVPs, and DMs
Bad
We don’t have persistent organic growth (though this has not been our focus)
Converting users to become event creators!
Ugly
Our Google Sheet database holding us back from certain functionality in our app 🤐
Our Focus For Next Month
Talking to more users
Building and bug-fixing
Navigating towards more frequent use and organic repeatable growth
Kudos
Everyone who has been part of our journey so far! 👍🏼
Asks
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