I have an idea for a social media app that could actually be a big thing if done correctly

I'm a CS student so It's not random to have projects like this

But it's a SOCIAL media app. You don't get to a successful sm app without people actually using it.

How do you get people to start using your app? Do you have to start with fake users so that the "first" user won't be the only one using the app?

How do you get funding? One man can't build a successful cross platform app for masses. Of course I could (and will) try to create a draft, an MVP. But there comes the time when I need more help and nothing is free.

How does all of this work?

Okay but the first thing I mentioned

If I build a social media app that requires a lot of traffic to be useful and I'm the only one using it than it's not gonna take off

Let's forget for a sec I'm talking about my project

How do social media apps take off in general?

Instagram would suck if it was only 5 people posting there
Twitter would suck if it was Jack Dorsey and friends tweeting

tell us more, @op

what is the main draw of your site?

True

Start with myself
Introduce it to my friends and go from there

But you're right first I gotta have a product people would like to use

Read this
eugenewei.com/blog/2019/2/19/status-as-a-service

Read this too
lennyrachitsky.com/p/how-the-biggest-consumer-apps-got

ngl man I really think this s*** could fill a whole in social media platforms and I'm keeping it low key for now

Don't want some mfcerk steal this s*** from me

Venture capital

Thanks! will peep it soon

Move to CS

Fuc social media

Truss me this ain't like mindless post a selfie get a like type of social media s***

If it’s some like healthy form of social media I wish you a lot of luck we needa get instagram and Twitter tf out of here

aye i respect that

if you ever get to a point of wanting people to test it for feedback

let me know

let my mans get his s*** off

read zero to one

watch The Social Network

Cool! Thanks man!

Haha that's exactly what I though

Got that on my watch list and gonna peep it tmrw

pseudocode and what's your design going to be look like.

Heard start ups pay their employees with equity

lurk angel.co as well OP